THE
WEST INDIES.
PART I.
ARGUMENT.
Introduction; on the Abolition of the Slave Trade,—The Mariner's Compass,—Columbus.—The Discovery of America.—The West Indian Islands,—The Charibs,—Their Extermination.
THY chains are broken, Africa, be free!'
Thus saith the island-empress of the sea;
Thus saith Britannia.——O, ye winds and waves!
Waft the glad tidings to the land of slaves;
Proclaim on Guinea's coast, by Gambia' side,
And as far as Niger rolls his eastern tide,
