Nor could there be any answer to this reasoning, unless it could be proved, that it had pleased God to give to the inhabitants of Britain a property in the liberty and life of the natives of Africa.

But he would go further on this subject.

The injustice complained of was not confined to the bare circumstance of robbing them of the right to their own labour.

It was conspicuous throughout the system.

They, who bought them, became guilty of all the crimes which had been committed in procuring them; and, when they possessed them, of all the crimes which belonged to their inhuman treatment.