be said on the necessity of a constant attention
to the subject of education. To prepare the minds of our
unfortunate African brethren for that condition of freedom and
rank in society to which they must, sooner or later, arrive--to
disseminate among them useful instruction on moral and religious
subjects, and to use our utmost endeavours to have schools
established, for the purpose of teaching them to read and write,
ought, we conceive, to be the primary object of all the Abolition
Societies. We also think it of importance, at this particular
period, to impress upon the minds of those who are in bondage,
the propriety of a quiet submission to the injunctions of their
masters, assuring them that by such conduct they will be likely
to experience not only the advantages of better treatment in
their present situation, but also cause, perhaps, even their
possessors to perceive the injustice that is attached to the
principles of slavery.

Firmly persuaded that considerable benefit has already resulted
from inculcating friendly advice to this oppressed people, and
believing that the sentiments contained in the addresses of the
former Conventions to the free blacks and other people of color
in the United States cannot be too frequently repeated and
enforced, we recommend to the consideration of the Societies, the
propriety of a republication of those addresses by each society,
and such communication and distribution thereof as may be best
calculated to promote a beneficial effect.

The Convention having been informed, that vessels are fitted out
with cargoes for certain of the West Indian Islands, parts of
which cargoes are their disposed of, and, with the proceeds,
slaves are purchased and carried to other of the said Islands,
and sold; also that other vessels are loaded with rum, for
certain ports in Africa, with the proceeds of which, we have
reason to believe, the natives are purchased and afterwards
conveyed and sold as slaves in the West Indies. We recommend a
strict enquiry to be made into the conduct of persons thus
offending against the dictates of humanity and the honor and
interest of our country, that proper measures, to punish and
prevent such nefarious and disgraceful practices, may be adopted.

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