The trade with all its horrors began at the river Senegal, and continued, winding with the coast, through its several geographical divisions to Cape Negro; a distance of more than three thousand miles.

In various lines or paths formed at right angles from the shore, and passing into the heart of the country, slaves were procured and brought down.

The distance, which many of them travelled, was immense.

Those, who have been in Africa, have assured us, that they came as far as from the sources of their largest rivers, which we know to be many hundred miles inland, and the natives have told us, in their way of computation, that they came a journey of many moons.
It must strike us again, that the misery and the crimes, included in the evil, as it has been shown in the transportation, had no ordinary bounds.

They were not to be seen in the crossing of a river, but of an ocean.