The American Quakers, lastly, living in a land where both the commerce and slavery existed, were in the way of obtaining a number of important facts relative to both, which made for their annihilation; and communicating many of these facts to those in England, who espoused the same cause, they became fellow-labourers with these in producing the event in question.
The Quakers in America, it must be owned, did most of them originally as other settlers there with respect to the purchase of slaves.

They had lands without a sufficient number of labourers, and families without a sufficient number of servants, for their work.

Africans were poured in to obviate these difficulties, and these were bought promiscuously by all.

In these days, indeed, the purchase of them was deemed favourable to both parties, for there was little or no knowledge of the manner in which they had been procured as slaves.

There was no charge of inconsistency on this account, as in later times.