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I The fo. lowing account of the horrid and cruel I confiqucnccsoS the SUve Trade was made noto^J rious in the Courts of Law in 17^3* rcfpe£hj»g J the murder of *31 negroes.I I11 171 a Liverpool fliip was by the made*I -rveil packed, through avarLc, with 412 flares*| He had neglected, or, perhaps, left too little roortl I for fuifieient water (but it appeared he intended I to be fupplird by calling at fome itland to the pal-I fagc from Aftica ro the \Veft Indies, but did not}*I This do ft packing of bit cargo of bmman beings 1 firir produced iickncfs and mortality, and upwards I of 60 negroes, and fevcnout of 17 whites, died*I Even now the maftcr ntoft diabolically (he is dead)I pretended a want of water, and propoted to throw I a great number of Haves overboard j Fbich^ in I two or three days, was aoally performed', and I 133 were marched along a plank in the dark, and I throw n into the lea, ohly one efcaping by a ropey I and l’ecretiy recover*ng the fliip* But ftujn thft I living evidence of a Lite Governor of Apanwboa*I and let end of the crew of the fbip Long, (l^iike I Collingwood, matter) it is certain they had theA I 200 gallons of water, and the Heavens poured 1 them plenty by rain the day after this butchery*I 1 and two days after. In this con tell between Gre£-* j I (on a**d others, owners of the fbip, and Gilbert:. J and others, mfurers, (the negroes being tn* j 1 Hired at 30I. ahead —Jelfa'tsrcreatures as lumber!) j I —it was proved, that this ck\er Devil of a Cap*I tain called together a few of the officers, and told \ I them, “ if the fl.ivcs died a 11 itur d death, it would,J be the lofs of the owners of the fliip ; and if they c I were thrown alive into the fca, it would tie the n I lofs of the underwriters/’ Io this Colmid J atilt ft. I J ICelfdl objected, fay me, ahcro wd yet enough ^ I water till they might get a fupply ; but he could [t j not prevail over the hell-hound mailer's deter-I initiation.I -J Apaliengcr now living Was on hoard an Afrl-y I can tlavc fli p; amongft them was a negro woman I md her fucking child. The parent*!! nhlk was,I no doubt, attested from her flm ition ; and the *m-I fant being ill, cried lb as to diltufft thfc tendet-^ I hearted Captain% who, with oaths and execrations, I declared, if flic did not »^uiet it, he would throw if I oxerhoard. This llie was not able to do* and the , | I brute actually tore it from her breads, and thrHV 1C I it into the fca. The mother, bring diilra/ad with [t I grief, exprclied her lorrtnvs aloud, u hen he alfo I thre t'cned to punifli her with death to flleuce her j lis I but this he de*lined, as his inter eft would have I been affected.* 1 m a a * « «* ■ m M f a.
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London Times
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Feb 18, 1788
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