When we learnt from these records, that crimes were committed in this country, we learnt also, that they were punished with transportation and death.

But the crimes committed in the Slave-trade were passed over with impunity.

Nay, the perpetrators were even sent out again to commit others.
As to the mode of obtaining slaves, it had been suggested as the least disreputable, that they became so in consequence of condemnation as criminals.

But he would judge of the probability of this mode by the reasonableness of it.

No less than eighty thousand Africans were exported annually by the different nations of Europe from their own country.