Reasons for abstaining from West-India rum and sugar, suited to the understandings of the common people / John Valton.

  • Valton, John, 1740-1794.
Date:
[1792]
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Credit: Reasons for abstaining from West-India rum and sugar, suited to the understandings of the common people / John Valton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    REASON S, & c. A Small pamphlet has been fpreadovey England, to difluade the people from the ufe of Rum and Sugar, with an inten¬ tion to put a flop to that cuiel and tan- natural traffic k, called the Slave-Trade* it is well written, and has hitherto been very ufeful; for by its means, many thoufands of per fans (and probably of families) have given up the ufe of thefe commodities* But if it bad been written in a plainer (file, its good effects would be more extenfive : becaufe the force of its arguments would be more eafily difeerned, and felt, by people of little education, who are as capable of hu¬ manity, as the nioli learned. For the better information of fuch people, the following pages are written; in which is contained, a fhort, and plain account, Firft, Of the man¬ ner, in which Slaves are procured on the Coaftof Africa. Secondly, Of their treat¬ ment in the (hips, while on their paflage from thence to the Wejl-Indies. Thirdly, Of the barbarities they undergo in their A 2 .flate