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Rh "One of the leading people likewise among the Moravians, has written me several very earnest letters upon the subject. Nay even the church of Rome, has been honored by the endeavors of one of her sons, the benevolent and indefatigable Bishop of Chiapa, (Las Casas) against this crying sin."

In 1783, his attention was called to the case of the ship Zong or Zung. This vessel, Luke Collingwood, master, sailed from St. Thomas, off the coast of Africa, for Jamaica, with 440 slaves and 14 whites on board, Sept. 6th, 1781. In November, she made Jamaica; but the master mistaking it, as he said, for Hispaniola, ran her to leeward. Sickness and mortality dreadfully prevailed, so that by 29th Nov. 60 slaves and 7 whites had died, besides a great number being dangerously ill. The master then made a proposal to his officers to throw the sick slaves into the sea, because, said he, if they die on board, the loss will fall upon the owners of the ship—but if they are thrown overboard for the preservation of the ship, the underwriters will have to bear it; besides, it will be mercy to save them from a lingering