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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    upon them after flogging, Thefe cruelties are infli&ed for the moil: trifling offences, through the rage or wantonnefs of the Owner or Driver; and there have been in¬ fiances of thofe who for greater crimes, have been gibbetted alive or burnt to death. * Some more dreadful a£ts of cruelty ac¬ knowledged before the Committee of the Houfe of Commons, have been concealed, as too fhocking to relate. When thefe poor abufed Slaves are worne out, or be¬ come incapable of working, they are turned off, and generally left to perifh by hunger and pain. Thefe miferable Creatures have no redrefs : they are mangled and mur¬ dered at pleafure, and fcarcely ever any account is taken of fuch barbarities. But does not the Mofi High regard ? Will not the judge of all the earth do right ? Shall I not vifit for thefe things, faith the Lord ? O yes! The Lord is at hand; the Judge is at the door! The avenger of blood is near ! * “ If God, the righteous, whom he loves. For trial does correbi; What * A Writer tells us of a Madagafcnr Slave on an eftate in the Dutch fettlement, at the Cape, who -was fentenced to be roafted alive. He was chained to a poll, and a large fire was kindled round him. In his jgpny, he ran round and round the poft, but without complaint or groan ; till at length, being almoft roafted, he dropped down, crying out, “ O God, my Father!” and fo on after expired.