Excerpt from A Compendium of Slavery, as It Exists in the Present Day in the United States of America: To Which Is Prefixed, a Brief View of the Author's Descent From an African King on One Side, and From the Celebrated Indian Chief Powhattan on the Other; In Which He Refers to the Principal Transactions and Negotiations Between This Noble Chief and the En Prior to my observations on slavery, I have thought proper to commence with my father's narrative, and follow with a short history of the famous Powhattan, from whom I am lineally descended. In pursuing this course, my motives are merely, in the first place, to show the vile and impious stratagem to which the kidnappers had recourse in stealing a whole cargo of persons, the leading members of two powerful tribes, including their repective kings, from the coast of Africa, about the year 1784; and, in the next place, to establish my claims on the sympathy and patronage of Englishmen, by the memorable services which the illustrious Pocahontas rendered the first English colony that settled in Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.