Excerpt from A Defence of the Wesleyan Methodist Missions in the West Indies: Including a Refutation of the Charges in Mr. Marryat's "Thoughts on the Abolition of the Slave Trade, &C." And in Other Publications; With Facts and Anecdotes Illustrative of the Moral State of the Slaves, and of the Operation of Missions The above statements are sufficient to show the utter ignorance of the negroes of every religious truth, which can give comfort to man, or regu late his conduct; the following will show the ef feets of that ignorance upon their morals, and be the strongest demonstration of the. Necessity of using the most zealous efions to remove it. The uninstructed negroes were but little above the beasts that perish; they were grossly intemperate, and taught their children to lie and steal from infancy. 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.