The subject of Roman slavery has recently been investigated with great diligence in a very modest but valuable volume, by Wm.

Blair, Esq., Edin.1833.May we be permitted, while on the subject, to refer to the most splendid passage extant of Mr.Pitt's eloquence, the description of the Roman slave-dealer.

on the shores of Britain, condemning the island to irreclaimable barbarism, as a perpetual and prolific nursery of slaves?
Speeches, vol.ii.p.

80.
Gibbon, it should be added, was one of the first and most consistent opponents of the African slave-trade.

(See Hist.ch.xxv.and Letters to Lor Sheffield, Misc.