It may be presumed, therefore, that this title is not always, if it be ever, founded in any of the causes above assigned." "But defect of right in the first purchase is the least crime with which this traffic is chargeable.

The natives are excited to war and mutual depredation, for the sake of supplying their contracts, or furnishing the markets with slaves.

With this the wickedness begins.

The slaves, torn away from their parents, wives and children, from their friends and companions, from their fields and flocks, from their home and country, are transported to the European settlements in America, with no other accommodation on ship-board than what is provided for brutes.

This is the second stage of the cruelty, from which the miserable exiles are delivered, only to be placed, and that for life, in subjection to a dominion and system of laws, the most merciless and tyrannical that ever were tolerated upon the face of the earth: and from all that can be learned by the accounts of people upon the spot, the inordinate authority, which the Plantation-laws confer upon the slave-holder, is exercised by the English slave-holder, especially, with rigour and brutality." "But necessity is pretended, the name under which every enormity is attempted to be justified; and after all, What is the necessity?
It has never been proved that the land could not be cultivated there, as it is here, by hired servants.