They generally educated their children in it.

They had never been found seditious or rebellious; and they demanded of the Parliament of Great Britain that protection, which, upon the principles of good faith, it was in duty bound to afford them in common with the rest of his majesty's loyal subjects.
[Footnote A: Here he quoted them specifically.] Mr.Vaughan stated that, being a West Indian by birth and connected with the islands, he could speak from his own knowledge.

In the early part of his life he was strongly in favour of the abolition of the Slave-trade.

He had been educated by Dr.Priestley and the father of Mrs.Barbauld; who were both of them friends to that question.

Their sentiments he had imbibed: but, although bred at the feet of Gamaliel, he resolved to judge for himself, and he left England for Jamaica.
He found the situation of the slaves much better than he had imagined.
Setting aside liberty, they were as well off as the poor in Europe.