Can it be for the best interest or good of the enslaved?
Certainly not; for there is no real inducement for the slaveholder to make beasts of burden of his fellow men, but that which was frankly acknowledged by Gibbs and other pirates: "we have the power,"-- the power to rob and murder on the high seas!--which they will undoubtedly continue to hold, until overtaken by justice; which will certainly come some time, just as sure as that a righteous God reigns over the earth or rules in heaven.
Some have attempted to apologize for the enslaving of the Negro, by saying that they are inferior to the Anglo-Saxon race in every respect.

This charge I deny; it is utterly false.

Does not the Bible inform us that "God hath created of one blood all the nations of the earth ?" And certainly in stature and physical force the colored man is quite equal to his white brother, and in many instances his superior; but were it otherwise, I can not see why the more favored class should enslave the other.

True, God has given to the African a darker complexion than to his white brother; still, each have the same desires and aspirations.

The food required for the sustenance of one is equally necessary for the other.