He further said: "For to sell Souls for Money seemeth to me to be dangerous Merchandise, to sell away from all Means of Grace whom Christ hath provided Means of Grace for you is the Way for us to be active in destroying their Souls when they are highly obliged to seek their Conversion and Salvation." Eliot bore it grievously that the souls of the slaves were "exposed by their Masters to a destroying Ignorance meerly for the Fear of thereby losing the Benefit of their Vassalage."[2] [Footnote 1: _Pennsylvania Magazine of History_, vol.xiii., p.

265.] [Footnote 2: Locke, _Anti-slavery Before 1808_, p.

15; Mather, _Life of John Eliot_, p.

14; _New Plymouth Colony Records_, vol.x., p.
452.] Further interest in the work was manifested by Cotton Mather.

He showed his liberality in his professions published in 1693 in a set of _Rules for the Society of Negroes_, intended to present the claims of the despised race to the benefits of religious instruction.[1] Mather believed that servants were in a sense like one's children, and that their masters should train and furnish them with Bibles and other religious books for which they should be given time to read.