To all Friends to LIBERTY. Fellow Subjects , IT is to you I dedicate this Treatise, and beg your protection of the same, hoping it will meet with a kind reception. The approbation men of character and sense have given the following Work, has made me venture it into your hands: And I hope in the perusal you will keep in view the Author, I am certain you cannot then fail of making great allowances. I am a North-Briton ! And when you know that, it alone may be judged by some, sufficient to brand me

I had not well arrived in America , when casting my eyes on so many Black Slaves, I immediately found a warm inclination arise in my breast, to do my endeavours for relieving them by publishing to the world my sentiments upon their state. Scarce had I time to draw a breath of this air, before I immediately applied myself to enquire into the state of this Slavery , and the constitution upon which it is founded, and having met with proper preliminaries by way of foundation for a small Treatise, I

THE subject of which these few sheets treat, would have been one of the last I should have ventured upon; had not the delusion of the men who are concerned in enslaving the people called Negroes appeared so glaring, and the contradiction that the Slave Trade bears to Christianity, prompted me to it. I shall be as cool and impartial in treating of this matter, as any British subject or Christian can: But why do I say cool? It is impossible I should speak cooly of such base, unchristian , and inhu