han 800,000 Negroes had been imported to
Jamaica, yet, at the latter date, only 340,000 were on the island.

Slavery in America received the same sanction by the religionists which
it received on the continent. George Whitefield, the great Methodist
preacher, was an earnest supporter of slavery. When the importation of
slaves finally ceased the states began the new industry of breeding
slaves; the leading state for this breeding, and the one which contained
the largest number of stud farms, was Virginia. Lord Macaulay, in a
speech delivered before the House of Commons on February 26, 1845, said:
"The slave states of the Union are of two classes, the breeding states,
where the human beast of burden increases, and multiplies, and becomes
strong for labor; and the sugar and cotton states to which these beasts
of burden are sent to be worked to death. Bad enough it is that
civilized man should sail to an uncivilized quarter of the world where
slavery existed, should buy wretched barbarians, and should carry them
away to labor in a distant land; bad enough! But that a civilized man, a
baptized man, a man proud of being a citizen of a free state, a man
frequenting a Christian Church, should breed slaves for exportation, and
if the whole horrible truth must be told, should even beget slaves for
exportation, should see children, sometimes his own children, gambolling
from infancy, should watch their growth, should become familiar with
their faces, and should sell them for $400 or $500 a head, and send them
to lead in a remote country a life which is a lingering death, a life
about which the best thing that can be said is that it is sure to be
short; this does, I own, excite a horror exceeding even the horror
excited by that slave trade which is the curse of the African coast. And
mark, I am speaking of a trade as regular as the trade in pigs between
Dublin and Liverpool, or as the trade in coals between the Tyne and the
Thames."

It has been estimated that the members and ministers of the Orthodox
churches in the South owned no less than 660,000 slaves.

Thomas Paine, in 1775, when he wrote his article on "Justice and
Humanity," was the first to demand emancipation in a lucid manner. The
campaign for liberation of the slaves was therefore inaugurated by a
freethinker, and triumphantly closed by another freethinker, Abraham
Lincoln. In this manner did the Church abolish slavery. With
characteristic disregard for the truth, the