Our statement, however, of these needs not be long.

A few pages will do all that is necessary! A glance only into such a subject as this will be sufficient to affect the heart--to arouse our indignation and our pity,--and to teach us the importance of the victory obtained.
The first subject for consideration, towards enabling us to make the estimate in question, will be that of the nature of the evil belonging to the Slave-trade.

This may be seen by examining it in three points of view:--First, As it has been proved to arise on the continent of Africa in the course of reducing the inhabitants of it to slavery;--Secondly, in the course of conveying them from thence to the lands or colonies of other nations;--And Thirdly, In continuing them there as slaves.
To see it as it has been shown to arise in the first case, let us suppose ourselves on the Continent just mentioned.

Well then--We are landed--We are already upon our travels--We have just passed through one forest--We are now come to a more open place, which indicates an approach to habitation.
And what object is that, which first obtrudes itself upon our sight?
Who is that wretched woman, whom we discover under that noble tree, wringing her hands, and beating her breast, as if in the agonies of despair?
Three days has she been there at intervals to look and to watch, and this is the fourth morning, and no tidings of her children yet.

Beneath its spreading boughs they were accustomed to play--But alas! the savage man-stealer interrupted their playful mirth, and has taken them for ever from her sight.
But let us leave the cries of this unfortunate woman, and hasten into another district:--And what do we first see here?
Who is he, that just now started across the narrow pathway, as if afraid of a human face?
What is that sudden rustling among the leaves?
Why are those persons flying from our approach, and hiding themselves in yon darkest thicket?
Behold, as we get into the plain, a deserted village! The rice-field has been just trodden down around it.