English ministers were also frequently going over to America on the same religious errand.

These, on their return, seldom failed to communicate what they had learned or observed, but more particularly relative to the oppressed Africans, in their travels.

The journals also of these, which gave occasional accounts of the sufferings of the slaves were frequently published.

Thus situated in point of knowledge, and brought up moreover from their youth in a detestation of the trade, the Quakers were ready to act whenever a favourable opportunity should present itself..