They, who engaged in it, knew the terms under which they were placed, and adopted it with all the risks with which it was accompanied; and of consequence it was but just, that they should be prepared to abide by the loss which might accrue, when the public should think it right no longer to support it.

But such a trade as this it was impossible any longer to support.

Indeed it was not a trade.

It was a system of robbery.

It was a system, too, injurious to the welfare of other nations.
How could Africa ever be civilized under it?
While we continued to purchase the natives, they must remain in a state of barbarism.