Their likely looks induced us to enter into a talk with them.

One of them, a very bright, handsome youth of about sixteen, could talk well.

He told us the circumstances of his being caught and enslaved, with as much composure as he would any common occurrence, not seeming to think of the injustice of the thing nor to speak of it with indignation....

He spoke of his master and his work as though all were right, and seemed not to know he had a right to be anything but a slave."[51] [Footnote 51: "Diary of Edward Hooker," in the American Historical Association _Report_ for 1906, p.

882.] In the principal importing colonies careful study was given to the comparative qualities of the several African stocks.