An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African: Translated From a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured With the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for t

Excerpt from An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African: Translated From a Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured With the First Prize in the University of Cambridge, for the Year 1785 But though this meafure appeared, as has been oh ferved before, to be attended with confiderable lofs to the benevolent individuals who adopted it, yet, as virtue feldom fails of obtaining its reward, it became ultimate ly beneficial. Many of the fiaves, who were thus uh conditionally freed, returned without any folicitation to their former mallers, to ferve them, at fiated wages, as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to be better done than before. It was found alfo, that a greater quantity was done in the fame time. Hence lefs than the former number of labourers'was fuflicient. From thefe, and a variety of other circumftances, it ap peared, that their plantations were confiderably more profitable, when worked by free men, than when wo'rk cd, as before, by flaves; and that they derived there fore, contrary to their expe&ations, a confiderable ad vantage from theirbenevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.