Muncaster, J: Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade, and of

Excerpt from Historical Sketches of the Slave Trade, and of Its Effects in Africa: Addressed to the People of Great-Britain

The Moon; mrdifigto Leo Africans} were the fir/l people who mixed amonglt the Negroes. They were then in the {late of animality, meeting by night in fmall companies of ten or a dozen, in a bower, covered with boughs of trees, each mm a'h'd woman awaiting a; love directed 5 they lived in common, no tyrants, nor fuperior Lords. Leo adds, they neven' made war, nor travelled into Other countries, but thus contentedly lived all their days 1n their native country, and never fer their feet out of it. Jofeph, of the family of Luhtana, founder, and king of the city of Mo rocco, conquered all thefe Negromations, in the year of the Hegiera, 380, about the middle of the eleventh century, and taught them the Mahome tan religion and then great numbers of the meta this of Barbary mulled into their country, to fill them goods, and learnt their language. Thus he lin¿ the Moms from Barbary, were the firfl vi firm into ahy of the Negro-marries. And Leo uptefily kys, All thefe fifteen kingdoms of N e grow (ammertking them) which are known to Us, extend alongthe Niger; and all the lands of.

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