A Short Review of the Reports of the African Institution: And of the Controversy with Dr. Thorpe, with Some Reasons Against the Registry of Slaves in the British Colonies |
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Page 18 - That the approaching cessation of the Slave Trade hitherto carried on by Great Britain, America, and Denmark, will, in a considerable degree, remove the barrier which has so long obstructed the natural course of social improvement in Africa; and that the way will be thereby opened for introducing the comforts and arts of a more civilized state of society. 3. That the happiest effects may be reasonably anticipated from diffusing useful knowledge, and exciting industry among the inhabitants of Africa,...
Page 22 - To obtain a knowledge of the principal languages of Africa, and, as has already been found to be practicable, to reduce them to writing, with a view to facilitate the diffusion of information among the natives of that country. ' ' ' 8. To employ suitable agents, and to establish correspondences, as shall appear advisable ; and to encourage and reward individual enterprise and exertion in promoting any of the purposes of the Institution.
Page 118 - Scriptures, by uneducated, illiterate, and ignorant persons, and false enthusiasts : And whereas the practice of such pretended preaching, teaching, and expounding the Holy Scriptures...
Page 18 - That this Meeting is deeply impressed with a sense of the enormous wrongs which the natives of Africa have suffered in their intercourse with Europe; and from a desire to repair these wrongs, as well as from general feelings of benevolence, is anxious to adopt such measures as are best calculated to promote their civilization and happiness.
Page 119 - ... increased to an alarming degree; and during such pretended preaching, teaching, and expounding, and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance of the neighbours...
Page 121 - As to the subject of your strong and reasonable solicitude, remember that the hearts of all men are in the hands of the Lord, and he can turn them as the rivers of water are turned.
Page 22 - Africa, and, as has been already found to be practicable, to reduce them to writing, with a view to facilitate the diffusion of information among the natives of that country. " 8. To employ suitable agents, and to establish correspondencies as shall appear advisable, and to encourage and reward individual enterprise and exertion in promoting any of the purposes of the Institution.
Page 119 - ... preaching, teaching, and expounding, and pretended worshipping of God, divers indecent and unseemly noises, gesticulations, and behaviour, often are used and take place, to the great annoyance of the neighbours, and to the disrepute of religion itself, and also to the great detriment of slaves, who are induced, by divers artifices and pretences of the said pretended preachers, to attend the said irregular assemblies, whereby such slaves are continually kept and detained from their owners...
Page 118 - An ordinance for preventing the profanation of religious rites and false worshipping of God, under the pretence of preaching and teaching, by illiterate, ignorant, and ill-disposed persons, and of the...
Page 49 - ... to do so; being first provided with a paper under the hand and seal of the governor, certifying that they are to be considered as his people and under his protection, which is looked upon, according to the customs and laws of Africa, to be a sufficient Security against further molestation.