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 Morgan Godwyn, a clergyman of the Church of England, who wrote and publihed in 1680 "The Negro's and Indian's Advocate, uing for their Admiion into the Church," etc., hardly intimates a doubt of the lawfulnes of their lavery, while he pleads for their humanity and right to religion againt a very general opinion of that day, which denied them both.

Dean Berkeley, in his famous ermon before the Venerable Society in 1731, peaks of "the irrational contempt of the Blacks, as Creatures of another Species, who had no right to be intructed or admitted to the Sacraments." Sermon, p. 19.

And George Keith (then Quaker), whose paper againt the practice was aid to be given forth by the appointment of the meeting held by him in the city of Philadelphia, about the year 1693, gave a trict charge to Friends "that they hould et their negroes at liberty, ''after ome reaonable time of ervice." Gabriel Thomas's Hitory of Pennylvania, etc., 1698, pp.'' 53, 54. This was probably the pamphlet quoted by Dr. Franklin in his letter to John Wright, 4th November, 1789. Works, 403.

Keith appears imply to have repeated the words of George Fox in Barbadoes in 1671, when he urged the religious training of the negroes, as well as kind treatment, in place of "cruelty towards them, as the manner of ome hath been and is; and that after certain years of ervitude they hould make them free." Journal,, 140. For a more particular account of this tetimony of Fox, see The Friend, Vol. pp. 28, 29. 4to. Phil. 1843. The explicit