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Loss of Seamen in the Slave Trade while in the Service of their respective Ships.

HE statements, made by the different evidences of the loss of seamen while on board their respective ships, unquestionably prove the slave-trade to be the grave of our marine. but as an account has been since made for the house of Commons expressly upon this point, taking all the slave-ships promiscuously from the ports of Liverpool and Bristol for a number of years back, and made up from the muster-rolls of each ship, it will be more proper to quote from so general and extensive an account, than from the testimony of a few, even the best informed, individuals.

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