For when we ask you, whether any human being has a right to sell you, you immediately answer, No; as if nature revolted at the thought, and as if it was so contradictory to your own feelings, as not to require consideration.

But who are you, that have this exclusive charter of trading in the liberties of mankind?
When did nature, or rather the Author of nature, make so partial a distinction between you and them?
When did He say, that you should have the privilege of selling others, and that others should not have the privilege of selling you?
Now since you confess, that no person whatever has a right to dispose of you in this manner, you must confess also, that those things are unlawful to be done to you, which are usually done in consequence of the sale.

Let us suppose then, that in consequence of the _commerce_ you were forced into a ship; that you were conveyed to another country; that you were sold there; that you were confined to incessant labour; that you were pinched by continual hunger and thirst; and subject to be whipped, cut, and mangled at discretion, and all this at the hands of those, whom you had never offended; would you not think that you had a right to resist their treatment?
Would you not resist it with a safe conscience?
And would you not be surprized, if your resistance should be termed rebellion ?--By the former premises you must answer, yes .-- Such then is the case with the wretched _Africans_.

They have a right to resist your proceedings.

They can resist them, and yet they cannot justly be considered as rebellious.