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258 NEGRO SLAVERY.
fact that they are not to blame for its introduction.
It originated with England. In 1585, Queen Elizabeth
personally took a share in the West India slave
trade, and in 1662, Charles II. gave the exclusive
right to the Queen Dowager, the Duke of York, and
others, to supply the West Indies with 3000 slaves.
The English Government patronised its introduction
also into the American Colonies. In 1760, these
Colonies became anxious to limit the slave trade, and
passed laws imposing a duty on negroes imported into
them. Great Britain refused to sanction any law
having such a tendency. In the same year, South Carolina
(then a British Colony) passed an act of their
own legislature to prohibit the further importation of
slaves, but Britain rejected this act with indignation,
and declared that the slave trade was beneficial to the
mother country. The governor who passed the act
was reprimanded, and a circular was sent to all the
other Colonial governors, warning them against a similar
offence. England maintained the slave trade
and slavery in her own colonies for many years subsequently
to the acknowledgment of American Independence,
and it was only on 1st August 1834, that
she at length did tardy justice to the negro race by
declaring them free.
The Americans, therefore, are not the authors of
the slavery which now disgraces their institutions;
and every candid mind must acknowledge that there
are great and formidable difficulties in the way of
their abolishing it. But they do not take this position.
They defend the practice itself, as one that is
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Combe, George, 1788-1858. Notes of the United States of North America, During a Phrenological Visit in 1898-9-40: Volume 1, book, 1841; Edinburgh, Scotland. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1028/m1/298/?q=%221838%3F%22&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.