Excerpt from An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Abstaining From West India Sugar and Rum The luft of power, and the pride of conqueft, have doubtlefs produced inflances far too numerous, of man enflttved by man. But we, in an enlightened age, have greatly furpafied, in brutality and injuftice, the moff ignorant and barbarous ages: and while we are pre tend'ing to the find: feelings of humanity, are exercifl ing unprecedented cruelty. We have planted flavery in the rank foil' of fordid avarice; and the produce has been mifery in the extreme. We have rtfcertain-l cd, by a cout'fe of experiments in cruelty, the portion O(n'ourifhment requifite to enable man to litr get a few years in mifery; the greatef't quantity ofla her which, m fach a fituation, the extreme of punifha ment can extort; and the ntmof't degree of pain, labor, and hungeeunited, that the human frame can, endure. 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.