He divides it into two societies of legal assassins; the oppressors, and the oppressed.
It is the same thing as proclaiming to the world, If you would preserve your life, instantly take away mine, for I want to have yours." Going on two pages further, we find these words: "But the Negros, they say, are a race born for slavery; their dispositions are narrow, treacherous, and wicked; they themselves allow the superiority of our understandings, and almost acknowledge the justice of our authority .-- Yes--The minds of the Negros are contracted, because slavery destroys all the springs of the soul.

They are wicked, but not equally so with you.

They are treacherous, because they are under no obligation to speak truth to their tyrants.

They acknowledge the superiority of our understanding, because we have abused their ignorance.

They allow the justice of our authority, because we have abused their weakness." "But these Negros, it is further urged, were born slaves.