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Anti Abolitionists - The Gentleman's magazine

This article was published in the Gentleman's magazine on 23rd April , 1789.

The plan for the abolition  of the slave trade is , in every view of it , silly and unwise .
It is founded on the mistaken idea of kindness , or rather on ignorance , stupidity and
passion. The Negroes  of Africa , in their native  country , are apparently useless in the
great scale of human society . They are totally incapable of improvement , arts or sciences.
The only way to promote their civilization , to make them useful in their life , and happy
in themselves , is to introduce them to a state of activity and industry.

That is the most horrible argument I have ever heard against the abolition of slavery.

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  1. The name given to the magazine does not suite with its articles.

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