Would any man estimate the character of the English nation by what was to be read in the records of the Old Bailey?
He himself, however, had lived sixteen years in the West Indies, and he could bear testimony to the general good usage of the slaves.
Before the agitation of this impolitic question the slaves were contented with their situation.

There was a mutual confidence between them and their masters: and this continued to be the case till the new doctrines were broached.

But now depots of arms were necessary on every estate; and the scene was totally reversed.

Nor was their religious then inferior to their civil state.

When the English took possession of Grenada, where his property lay, they found them baptized and instructed in the principles of the Roman Catholic faith.