Now he believed it was possible to avoid these objections, and at the same time to act in harmony with the prejudices which had been mentioned.

This might be done by regulations, by which we should effect the end much more speedily than by the way proposed.

By regulations, he meant such as would increase the breed of the slaves in the West Indies; such as would ensure a moral education to their children; and such as would even in time extinguish hereditary slavery.

The extinction, however, of this was not to be effected by allowing the son of an African slave to obtain his freedom on the death of his parent.

Such a son should be considered as born free.