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A
DISSUASION
TO
GREAT-BRITAIN
AND THE
COLONIES,
FROM THE
Slave Trade to Africa.
SHEWING,
The Contradiction this Trade bears, both to Laws divineand provincial; the Disadvantages arising fromit, and Advantages from abolishing it, both toEurope and Africa, particularly to Britainand the Plantations.
ALSO SHEWING,
How to put this Trade to Africa on a just andlawful Footing.
By James Swan,
A Native of Great-Britain, and Friend to theWelfare of this Continent.
BOSTON:NE.
Printed by E. Russell, near the New Intelligence-Officeand Auction-room, and next the Cornfield,Union-street.
To all Friends to LIBERTY.
Fellow Subjects,
IT is to you I dedicate this Treatise,and beg your protectionof the same, hoping it will meetwith a kind reception.
The approbation men of characterand sense have given thefollowing Work, has made meventure it into your hands: AndI hope in the perusal you willkeep in view the Author, I am certainyou cannot then fail of makinggreat allowances. I am a North-Briton![vi]And when you knowthat, it alone may be judged bysome, sufficient to brand me withthe hateful name of Tory, andthereby condemn this Dissuasion.But let me inform you (for there isno general rule without an exception)that I am a most sincere well-wisherto the common cause ofLiberty, both personal and constitutional;then you will, give mea place in the list of your staunchFriends, and accept of this Attempt,as intended to be a meanof abolishing one great part ofSlavery here.
If there is any merit in endeavouringto set free from Bondageour fellow creatures, and in tryingto promote the good and welfareof any nation, province, country,or individual, surely I may claim...