The story of the Morant Keys was paralleled by that of Captain Collingwood; and were you to got rid of these, another, and another, would still present itself, to prove the barbarous effects of this trade on the moral character.
But of the miseries of the trade there was no end.

Whilst he had been reading out of the evidence the story of the Morant Keys, his eye had but glanced on the opposite page, and it met another circumstance of horror.
This related to what were called the refuse-slaves.

Many people in Kingston were accustomed to speculate in the purchase of those, who were left after the first day's sale.

They then carried them out into the country, and retailed them.

Mr.Ross declared, that he had seen these landed in a very wretched state, sometimes in the agonies of death, and sold as low as for a dollar, and that he had known several expire in the piazzas of the vendue-master.