He would sympathize with you in your distress.
He would be enraged at the conduct of his countrymen, and resist their tyranny."-- But here a shriek unusually loud, accompanied with a dreadful rattling of chains, interrupted the discourse.

The wretched Africans were just about to embark: they had turned their face to their country, as if to take a last adieu, and, with arms uplifted to the sky, were making the very atmosphere resound with their prayers and imprecations.
* * * * * CHAP.

II.
The foregoing scene, though it may be said to be imaginary, is strictly consistent with fact.

It is a scene, to which the reader himself may have been witness, if he has ever visited the place, where it is supposed to lie; as no circumstance whatever has been inserted in it, for which the fullest and most undeniable evidence cannot be produced.
We shall proceed now to describe, in general terms, the treatment which the wretched Africans undergo, from the time of their embarkation.
When the African slaves, who are collected from various quarters, for the purposes of sale, are delivered over to the _receivers_, they are conducted in the manner above described to the ships.

Their situation on board is beyond all description: for here they are crouded, hundreds of them together, into such a small compass, as would scarcely be thought sufficient to accommodate twenty, if considered as _free men_.