Hence they were unfit for civil rights.
To use these properly they must be gradually restored to that level, from which they had been so unjustly degraded.

To allow them an appeal to the laws, would be to awaken in them a sense of the dignity of their nature.
The first return of life, after a swoon, was commonly a convulsion, dangerous at once to the party himself and to all around him.

You should first prepare them for the situation, and not bring the situation to them.
To be under the protection of the law was in fact to be a freeman; and to unite slavery and freedom in one condition was impracticable.

The abolition, on the other hand, was exactly such an agent as the case required.

All hopes of supplies from the Coast being cut off, breeding would henceforth become a serious object of attention; and the care of this, as including better clothing and feeding, and milder discipline, would extend to innumerable particulars, which an act of assembly could neither specify nor enforce.