ABSTRACT
The grand object of English navigators - is money - money - money - for which I do not pretend to blame them - Commerce attended with strict honesty - and with Religion for its companion - would be a blessing to every shore it touched at. - [but] In Africa, the poor wretched natives - blessed with the most fertile and luxuriant soil - are rendered so much the more miserable for what Providence meant as a blessing: - The Christians' abominable traffic for slaves - and the horrid cruelty and treachery of the petty Kings - encouraged by their Christian customers .... But enough - it is a subject that sours my blood.8
