These distinctions could never be obliterated while it lasted.

Indeed both the trade and the slavery must fall before the infamy, now fixed upon a skin of colour, could be so done away, that Whites and Blacks could meet cordially, and look with respect upon one another.

They had it in their instructions, in case they should obtain a seat in the Assembly, to propose an immediate abolition of the Slave-trade, and an immediate amelioration of the state of slavery also, with a view to its final abolition in fifteen years.
But time was flying apace, I had now been nearly seven weeks in Paris; and had done nothing.

The thought of this made me uneasy, and I saw no consoling prospect before me.

I found it even difficult to obtain a meeting of the Friends of the Negros.