In the passage indeed no one was capable of describing them.

The section of the slave-ship, however, made up the deficiency of language, and did away all necessity of argument, on this subject.

Disease there had to struggle with the new affliction of chains and punishment.

At one view were the irksomeness of a gaol, and the miseries of an hospital; so that the holds of these vessels put him in mind of the regions of the damned.

The trade, he said, ought immediately to be abolished.