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Rh Princes so that they cannot get their business looked into or followed, and consequently a great hinderance to the manufacturing such quantities of their country's produce of every kind, to send to Europe and America, &amp;c. as they might do, were this Slave Trade abolished, and the Rulers in amity, friendship, and concord, one with another.

It is further a hurt to the African trade with Europe, for the Slave Trade has so gained upon the minds of those men that traffick to Africa, that they never once think of the other commodities, at least in such quantities as Europe might consume were the attention necessary paid to it by making this the only object of the traders notice, I believe it would turn out much more profitable to keep wholly to the produce of this country, viz. gums, ivory, gold and silver dust, &amp;c. and to resign that base unchristian Trade of Man-selling.

Lastly, on this head, To shew the disadvantages to the British Plantations in America, &amp;c. in bringing Black people into them. This will be made very easily appear when you consider, that these numerous Black People, which are yearly brought