One witness had spoken of the acuteness of their understandings; another of the extent of their memories; a third of their genius for commerce; a fourth of their proficiency in manufactures at home.

Many had admired their gentle and peaceable disposition; their cheerfulness; and their hospitality.

Even they, who were nominally slaves in Africa, lived a happy life.

A witness against the abolition had described them as sitting and eating with their masters in the true style of patriarchal simplicity and comfort.

Were these then a people incapable of civilization?
The argument that they were an inferior species had been proved to be false.
He would now go to a new part of the subject.