The Elevation of a Race And the Redemption of a Continent An Address Delivered
The Elevation of a Race And the Redemption of a Continent An Address Delivered
William Henry Allen
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Suppose further that the cli- mate is insalubrious to foreigners, and therefore science, art. Social cul- ture and Christianity will not be imported by them. Suppose, finally, that the people are too indolent to seek such benefits in other countries, and too ignorant to appreciate them if they did. Such was, and to a great extent is, the actual condition of a large part of Africa. How shall her millions be instructed, elevated, civilized, Christianized ? Look at the long catalogue of evils and ...sufferings of which good lias been born, and more good is yet to be born, wars of the native tribes to capture human merchandise; the Imrracoon, the slave-ship, the hor- rors of the middle passage; the auction block, the rending asunder of families, the consignment to hopeless and hereditary bondage ; tierce and protracted political controversy; a bloody and destructive war. Were there no compensation for these tremendous evils we might doubt whether there is a God in history. Let us see what good has come, or is promised, from two centuries of suffering and wrong.
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