But what should we say, if it should turn out, that we were the causes of those very cruelties, which we affected to prevent?
But, if it were not so, ought the first nation in the world to condescend to be the executioner of savages?
Another way of keeping up the Slave-trade was by the practice of man-stealing.

The evidence was particularly clear upon this head.

This practice included violence, and often bloodshed.

The inhumanity of it therefore could not be doubted.
The unhappy victims, being thus procured, were conveyed, he said, across the Atlantic in a manner which justified the charge of inhumanity again.
Indeed the suffering here was so great, that neither the mind could conceive nor the tongue describe it.

He had said on a former occasion, that in their transportation there was a greater portion of misery condensed within a smaller space, than had ever existed in the known world.