When slaves in that country are brought to market, no questions, I believe, are asked about the origin or justice of the vendor's title.

It may be presumed, therefore, that this title is not always, if it be ever, founded in any of the causes above assigned.
"But defect of right in the first purchase is the least crime with which this traffic is chargeable.

The natives are excited to war and mutual depredation, for the sake of supplying their contracts, or furnishing the markets with slaves.

With this the wickedness begins.

The slaves, torn away from their parents, wives, and children, from their friends and companions, from their fields and flocks, from their home and country, are transported to the European settlements in America, with no other accommodation on ship-board than what is provided for brutes.