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68.42% majesty nature honour humanity attention virtue surely general true royal benevolence african minds mind blessings millions desire misery africans earth situation heaven sufferings worthy afflicted office manumission generous iniquity brutes address queen interposition measure commit presence confined brethren sable sentiment practised planters greater power fully written european degree substantial
15.79% slaves west negroes negro men indies islands poor man state act work pay treatment common pence gentlemen day half human manner life oppressed cruelty instances owner india instance white owners climate order violent witness usage estates distress island barbadoes lives creatures mentioned king jamaica redress oppression surprising despair threatened
10.53% africa country customs account countrymen manners inhabitants coast religion time years lordship memorialist bishop subject resided governor education share portuguese africans occasions permitted considerable humbly missionary priest blacks proper native learning opinion success jews complexion engaged language part natives converting desirous undertaking traffic means encouraged embraced increase case desire
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Yet I do not solicit your royal pity for my own distress; my sufferings, although numerous, are in a measure forgotten. I supplicate your Majesty's compassion for millions of my African countrymen, who groan under the lash of tyranny in the West Indies.