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Title: American Slave Trade
or, An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers
take Free People from some of the United States of America,
and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves in other of
the States; and of the horrible Cruelties practised in
the carrying on of this most infamous Traffic

Author: Jesse Torrey

Release Date: April 19, 2010 [EBook #32058]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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AMERICAN
SLAVE TRADE;

OR,

An Account of the Manner in which the Slave Dealers
take Free People from some of the United States of
America, and carry them away, and sell them as Slaves
in other of the States; and of the horrible Cruelties
practised in the carrying on of this most infamous
Traffic:

WITH

REFLECTIONS on the Project for forming a Colony of
American Blacks in Africa, and certain Documents
respecting that Project.

_By JESSE TORREY, Jun. Physician._

WITH FIVE PLATES.

LONDON:

REPRINTED BY C. CLEMENT, AND PUBLISHED BY
J. M. COBBETT, 1, CLEMENT'S INN.

1822.

PREFACE.

"And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in
his hand, shall surely be put to death."

_Exodus xxi. 16._

1. Throughout this work I have numbered the _paragraphs_, a practice
which I find to be attended with numerous advantages. The work was
published in Philadelphia in 1817.

2. The reader will perceive, that Mr. TORREY, the author of the work
here presented to the public, has mixed his reflections with his
narrative of facts. A different arrangement would have tended to
clearness. But, as applicable to the English reader, there is a defect
of greater importance; namely, the want