Identifier: narrativeoffivey02sted (find matches)
Title: Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Subjects: Slavery -- Suriname Indians of South America -- Guiana Suriname -- Description and travel Suriname -- History To 1803
Publisher: London, J. Johnson, & T. Payne
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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consisting of 50,000, are totally extinct once every twenty
years. Truth and justice however oblige me to declare, that
the inhuman barbarities I have been just describing are
not universal. Compassionate Heaven has ordained some
exceptions, as I shall impartially shew, by reversing the
picture: not like some writers who have treated this sub-
ject, and carefully concealed the most pleasing touches of
goodness and humanity, whilst only the darkest shades
have been exposed to the public eye, but by candidly ex-
hibiting both sides with equal justice and precision; and
it is indeed with pleasure I can affirm, that the negro
slaves on some estates are treated, in my opinion, as men
ought to be treated; and this mode of conduct might
still be more general, by amending the laws, which ought
not corruptly to invest human nature with what it is cer-
tain to abuse—an authority completely despotic. No
master surely ought to be entrusted with the dangerous
power of taking away the life of his slaves with impunity;
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