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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63791	Friendly advice to the gentlemen-planters of the East and West Indies In three parts. I. A brief treatise of the most principal fruits and herbs that grow in the East & West Indies; giving an account of their respective vertues both for food and physick, and what planet and sign they are under. Together with some directions for the preservation of health and life in those hot climates. II. The complaints of the negro-slaves against the hard usages and barbarous cruelties inflicted upon them. III. A discourse in way of dialogue, between an Ethiopean or negro-slave, and a Christian that was his master in America. By Philotheos Physiologus.	Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703.	1684 (1684)	Wing T3179; ESTC R203819	70,066	226

Sea should swell a little higher and wash the tops of your Sugar-Canes I might not then lawfully swim Home to my own Country without being beaten to a Jelly for a Run-away Master Out you Rogue Are these your Contemplations nothing but studying Mischief to your Master Your Bones shall presently pay for the busie Idleness of your Brains and the Sauciness of your Tongue Slave O boon Master I beseech you be not angry I meant no harm in the World This is a Day on which you do not Work therefore I hope you will not Fight which I conceive is ten times worse for I had rather work all the Sunday then be beaten once If you will be pleased to lay by your huge Cudgel and vouchsafe to answer me a few harmless Questions I doubt not but I shall divert you as much to your satisfaction as if I had danc'd two Hours Mast. Though you are an Impudent yet since you seem to be an ingenious Raskal I am content for once to hear your Prate What is your wise Question Sl. I desire first you would lay that frightful Cudgel a little further off and then begging Pardon for the Presumption since this is the Day you observe to serve God in I would crave leave to be a little instructed touching that Service and wherein it consists Mast. Why It consists in being Christians as we are But what should I talk to such a dark ignorant Heathen scarce capable of common Sense much less able to understand things of such an high and mysterious Nature Sl. I confess we are poor silly dark ignorant Creatures and for ought I find so are many of the Bacchararo's too as well as we but that you may not grudge your Time or Pains I will assure you that I will attend very seriously to what you say and possibly may prove somewhat more docible than some of our Complexion For I was the Son of a Phitisheer that is a kind of Priest in our Country and Way he was also a Sophy and had studied the Nature of things and was well skill'd in Physick and natural Magick I have heard him often discourse of a great and mighty Beeing greater far and brighter too than either Moon or Sun which framed both Land and Sea and all the glittering Glories of the Skie and he was wont to say Men were the Children of the great King who if they were good would take them up but I think it was after they were dead here into spangled Regions where they should do no Work nor endure any Pain nor Fight one with another but remain in Ioy and Peace and Happiness 'T is so long ago that I was taken from him and sold hither that I have forgot much of his Talk and yet I remember some of his Skill whereby I have Cured several of my Country-men since I came hither of Diseases that your Doctors could not help either so surely or so suddainly Mast. I have heard something of your suecess that way and since thou art the Son of an Heathen-Philosopher and pretendest to more Wit than the rest of thy Fellow-Brutes what is it thou wouldst be at Sl. Sir I desire to be informed what a Christian is or ought to be Mast. Though I think it will be to as little purpose as to go about to wash thy Skin white to inform such dark stupid Heathens as you are nevertheless I shall endeavour to gratifie your Curiosity 1 st He that is a Christian ought to believe that God made the World and all things therein Sl. O then Master I am a Christian for I believe that as well as you Mast. Hold your Tongue there go many other things to make a Christian besides that for he must also know and believe that Man being thus made did by transgressing the Law of his Maker fall from that good and perfect State wherein he was made into a sinful estate and thereby was liable to the Wrath of God and so to be Damn'd forever or suffer everlasting Punishment But God out of the unspeakable Riches of his Grace and Goodness to his Creatures thus become miserable determined in his own secret Counsel and in fulness of time did actually send down his most beloved and eternal Son Iesus Christ to take upon him mans Nature who after a most unspotted exemplary Life and laborious Preaching the good Tidings of Remission of Sins to all that should believe in him and enduring many Persecutions and Affronts here on Earth was at last put to Death without the Gates of Ierusalem by the cruel Hands of the Iews and being buried rose again to Life the third day and ascended into Heaven by which Death of his he satisfied the Wrath of God for the Sins of the whole World as the Scripture witnesseth Sl. If Jesus Christ dyed for the Sins of the whole World or satisfied God's wrath for the Sins of All Mankind then we that you call Heathens may justly challenge equal priviledge with your selves Mast. O no you do not believe in his Name nor observe his Commands and Precepts Sl. As how I pray Mast. You are not Baptized in the Name of the Holy Trinity nor do believe the Merits of Christ's satisfaction or that he hath taken away your Sins Sl. This is a brave Religion that by the Death and Suffering of one all men that in after Generations believe this shall have their Sins pardon'd and be blest with eternal Happiness Mast. Still Sambo you are too quick there is more required then a bare Faith or verbal Belief that such a thing was done Christ is our Prophet to teach us and our King to rule us as well as our Saviour to redeem us They must yield Obedience and do a Christian's Duty that shall have an Interest or Benefit by his Death Sl. I pay then tell me the duty of a Christian. Mast. The Gospel of Christ or the Doctrine which he taught and we profess instructs and requires us 1 st To fear the Lord that created all things 2 dly To be Merciful and do unto all men as we would be done unto 3 dly To be Sober and Temperate in Meats Drinks and Exercises mortifying the Lusts of the Flesh and avoiding all kind of Superfluity that so we may not waste or abuse the good Creatures of God 4 thly To avoid evil Communication because it corrupts good Manners and vain Words but especially wicked Ones 5 thly To observe the Rules of Purity and abstain from all appearance of Evil both in Words and Works 6 thly To free our selves from Envy Strife Malice Back-biting and Slander not to accuse men behind their Backs of what they will not speak to their Faces or cannot prove 7 thly Not to judge of things we understand not lest we be judged nor condemn those things of which we have no certain Knowledge or Experience 8 thly To be sensible that the Lord by his all-seeing-Eye and divine Principle beholds all our Wayes and that to

murder the other at their pleasure and as for those that they save alive 't is not out of pity or kindness but to gratifie their own Covetousness by making Merchandize of them and exposing them to Slavery far worse than Death For then we are hurried from our nearest and dearest Relations the kind Husband from his loving Wife the tender Mother from her helpless Babes and Youths the comfort and joy of Age snatcht from their mourning Parents and that without any hopes of ever seeing one another again Thus are we sometimes driven many Miles by Land over partching Deserts and through howling Wildernesses down to the Sea-Coasts and and Factories being all the way miserably abus'd by our unmerciful Drivers and wearied and spent with Over-Travel Hunger Drought and excessive Heat which puts a period to many of our sweet Lives but the same when it happens is reckoned an happiness for thereby that greater and long lasting Misery is prevented which those that survive must endure for no sooner are they arrived at the Sea-side but they are sold like Beasts to the Merchant who glad of the booty puts us aboard the Ship claps us under Deck and binds us in Chains and Fetters and thrusts us into the dark noisom Hold so many and so close together that we can hardly breathe there are we in the hottest of Summer and under that scorching Climate without any of the sweet Influences of the Air or briezing Gale to refresh us suffocated stewed and parboyled altogether in a Crowd till we almost rot each other and our selves Nay many times not only our profest Enemies but our Treacherous Friends betray us to these intollerable Miseries for so far is the Root of bitterness irritated and such an Ascendent it hath got over us that for vain trifles our paltry Parents shall sell their Children and Husbands their Wives into perpetual Slavery Nor let any Christian Tyrants for this upbraid us for if it be as in truth it is a most unnatural wickedness in our People to sell them is it not upon the matter almost as bad in the Christians to buy them Nay rather is not the chiefest Crime in them since they are the Tempters and Occasioners of it for they allure our ●eople to it by offering them several sorts of Goods which they find they have most mind to And is not this a fine imployment think you for Christians to run to remotest Regions to get their innocent Fellow Creatures and make Slaves of them Whilst we are thus mew'd up in the Ship besides the inconveniencies of heat and danger of suffocation and the Torture of our Chains we also run the hazard of being half starved for the Ship-Masters out of Covetousness and for their own Lucre will not allow us fit or competent Meats or Drinks but just enough to keep Life and Soul together and that corrupt decayed stinking and unwholsome by which all our Healths and Lives are destroyed or impaired for oft times half or more of our wretched Number dye in the Voyage and others of us of more sturdy Spirits and Tempers when they see themselves thus Captiv'd scorning to preserve a Life that thenceforth would be only advantagious to others and burthensome to them by refusing all Sustenance have shortened their dayes As for the rest we are so generally wounded in our Healths by the ill ●sage we receive on Ship-board that we seldom recover our strength and when we come on Shore we find no ●etter fare nor Treatment from our ●ew Christian Masters most of them proving as sharp and Tyrannical as our ●wn Heathen Fathers and Brethren as ●hey call them for when we by the Ship-Master and Seamen have suffered so many violent Miseries and sore Op●ressions that we are thereby as poor weak and feeble as Death so that we ●an hardly either stand or go which ●endring us not capable to answer ●he Covetous ends of our new Masters our Afflictions are thereby doubled for when our strength fails us the inconsiderate and unmerciful Overseers make nothing to Whip and Beat us ●nd the best words they can afford us ●re Damn'd Doggs Black ugly Devils ●dle Sons of Ethiopean Whores and the ●ike Alas we expected another sort of Treatment from the Christians who boast themselves the Sons and Favourites of the God of Love and Goodness and who we have been informed are or ought to be endued with the Spirit of Meekness Innocency and doin unto all as they would be done unto We understand that to be a Christian is to live under the Government of the Divine Principle of Benignity and Well-doing from whence all good Vertues are deriv'd as streams from a Fountain But verily we find little very little or scarce any sign at all of this excellent Spirit to reign in the hearts of our Masters or Overseers but on the contrary find them over-ruled and filled with Devilishness Cruelty and Oppression which are so extream that we can as hardly bear them as the Israelites of Old could the grievous and unreasonable Burthens of Egyptian Pharoah and his Task-masters which did force them to cry unto the Lord for ease and deliverance from those cruel Bonds and Slaveries even as we do at this day To enumerate the miseries we endure by a particular Bill of 〈◊〉 would be too tedious we shall Instance in some few of the most Insufferances that all knowing Power to whom our Cries are directed knows all the several aggravations of them and the Consciences of our Masters cannot but witness to the Truth and Justice of our Complaints 1. Though we acknowledge man is born to Labour and had not hands only given him to put Victuals into his Mouth but first to use them in tilling the Earth and getting Food and all other things requisite for humane Life yet certainly the merciful God never intended that any of his Creatures should be forced to Labour beyond their natural strength nor have burthens imposed on their weary Shoulders greater than they are able to bear Labour was undoubtedly enjoyned as an exercise to preserve Health and Strength and prevent Sloth and Idleness not as a perpetual Plague to destroy Nature and make Life a Torment and Death a Courtesy yet our Flint-hearted Tyrants not content with diligent Industry and pains force us to unreasonable Labours both for toil and continuance beyond the power of Nature and whereas a good man is merciful even to his Beast they extend no Compassion to us who are of the same Species with themselves but slave us on in continual drudgery till our Heart-strings crack and our Nerves are enfeebled and our Marrow is exhausted and our Bones fall under their Burthens and our Spirits are consumed and our Souls in Weariness and Anguish wish for Death rather than Life The end of all Natures Motions is Rest nor can she perform any of her Operations without Refreshment Ground alwayes plow'd yields little encrease but must lie fallow now and then if you expect a