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344 upon Ham, and that the children of Africa have participated in its consequences. The reply to this is: 1st. That the severities of the African slave trade, and the horrors of Negro slavery, as exhibited in European colonies and possessions, are entirely modern—confined to a short period in the history of the world, and therefore not a true exemplification of the general condition of the Negro race. 2dly. That while it is true that servitude and slavery have existed in some form throughout Africa, in every stage of its history, it is also true that servitude and slavery have teen the general condition of society, in all nations, in all countries, at all periods of time, and are not in any manner peculiar to the black man, or the Negro race.

In connection with this fact I remark:

3dly. That if the general existence of slavery in a race, or among a people, is to be taken as an indication that a curse has descended upon them, then the mass of the Turks, Poles, Russians, Circassians, are lineal descendants of Canaan, and therefore "doomed races." And in the same category the larger portion of even Anglo-Saxons must be placed; for, but a short time since, a multitude of Britons were absolutely "goods and chattels," under the name of "villeins."

Those persons, surely, display great ignorance, who associate the system of slavery, specially and alone, with the Negro race, and who are not aware of its existence in other races, and in all periods of his-