"I am persuaded," says he, "that Mr.Wilberforce has been rightly informed as to the manner in which slaves are generally procured.

The intelligence I have collected from my own Negros abundantly confirms his account; and I have not the smallest doubt, that in Africa the effects of this trade are precisely such as he has represented them.

The whole, or the greatest part, of that immense continent is a field of warfare and desolation; a wilderness, in which the inhabitants are wolves towards each other.

That this scene of oppression, fraud, treachery, and bloodshed, if not originally occasioned, is in part (I will not say wholly) upheld by the Slave-trade, I dare not dispute.
Every man in the Sugar Islands may be convinced that it is so, who will inquire of any African Negros, on their first arrival, concerning the circumstances of their captivity.

The assertion that it is otherwise, is mockery and insult." But it was not only by acts of outrage that the Africans were brought into bondage.