Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of Negro slaves, in the sugar colonies / by a professional planter.

  • Collins, Dr.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Practical rules for the management and medical treatment of Negro slaves, in the sugar colonies / by a professional planter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    might naturally have expected th^y Vfi>ul<i looked, as to the most geauine code of human duties; or if they did look there, they found nothing which militated in the least for their purpose. On the contrary, one reverend divine, has incontestibly proved, that the writers of the Old Testament are expressly in favour of the institution of slavery; and that it hath not been abrogated in any one pas- sage of the New. Certain it is, that in the earlier ages of the world, long after the divine doctrines had been promulgated, the human mind was too daik to entertain any doubts of the rectitude of an institution, which, from the relation that exists be- tween cause and effect, must have been almost co- eval with man; and that it hath only been in con- sequence of the greater expansion of intellect ac- quirted by tdhe lapse of ages, that we are enabled to discer,n the injustice of one man usurping unlimited rule over another. 11 appears, therefore, that slavery is prohibited by philosophy, not by theology; and I am .doubtful whether the principle, upon which that prohibition is founded, may not, when urged to the extremity to which it may fairly he carried, lead also to the condemnation of niany other of the practices of men, which are now deemed perfectly consistent jvith moral rectitude; fpr who th&t denies B 2