An Answer to the REV. Mr. Clarkson's Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species; Particularly the African in a Series of Letters, from a Gentleman in Jamaica, to His Friend in London Wherein Many of the Mistakes and Misrepresentations of Mr. Clark (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1789. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Christ, hath made us free. But, not to rely on the authority of Ctejias, we learn also, from Herodotus, lib. 3, that the Babylonians, in part of their tribute to the Persians, paid annually five hundred eunuchs. The Ethiopians also sent them five young Ethiopian eunuchs every third year: and the Colchians also, every fifth year, sent a tribute of one hundred boys, and one hundred young women. The same author, lib. 4. explains the nature of the African commerce, which was carried on in the time of Pfammeticus, king of Egypt, whose vessels, equipped from Suez, and commanded by Ph nician seamen, doubled the Cape of Good Hope, and returned to Egypt by the Mediterranean Sea. At the ceremony of the inauguration of Ptolemy Philadelphus, we are told, by Athenaus, that female slaves, of Asia and Africa, began the procession. Camels, loaded with incense, saffron, cinnamon, and precious aromatics, followed. A body of Ethiopians bore ebony wood, and four hundred, elephants teeth. Abyssinians were loaded with gold dust.--We learn also, from Diod. Sic. lib. 1. thatAlexandria alone contained fix hundred thousand slaves in the time of the Ptolemies. Add to what has been before said, that slavery has ever been in usage among the Chinese. The high antiquity of . that people is indisputable: their annals, for several thousand years, bear marks of unquestionable authority. There are not wanting men of great learning, who maintain their king Fo-hi to . have been Noah. According to Pere du Halde DEGREES the Chinese annals may be safely relied on frorrr. Ta-o, who was the eighth emperor from Fo.hiy. and is said to have reigned 2357 years before the Christian era, (i. er) within a very few years of the deluge, according to the Hebrew chronology. Their histories make no menti