Thoughts On the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies
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But this was not the fault of _theemancipated Negroes_, but of _their former masters_. It was owing to theprejudices of the latter, that this frightful invasion took place;prejudices, indeed, common to all planters, where slavery obtains, from the very nature of their situation, and upon which I have made myobservations in a former place. Accustomed to the use of arbitrarypower, they could no longer brook the loss of their whips. Accustomedagain to look down upon the Negroes as an inferior race... of beings, or asthe reptiles of the earth, they could not bear, peaceably as these hadconducted themselves, to come into that familiar contact with them, as_free labourers_, which the change of their situation required. Theyconsidered them, too, as property lost, but which was to be recovered. In an evil hour, they prevailed upon Buonaparte, by falserepresentations and _promises of pecuniary support_, to restore thingsto their former state. The hellish expedition at length arrived upon theshores of St.
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