slavery video

 

In all the different islands the treatment of the slaves was nearly the same; so nearly indeed, that the

history of an island, or even a plantation, with a few such exceptions as it had

mentioned, might serve for a history of the whole. Such a tendency has the slave-trade

to debauch men's minds, and harden them to every feeling of humanity! the dealers in slaves are born worse than other men—No; it is

the fatality of this mistaken avarice, that it corrupts the milk of human kindness and

turns it into gall. And, had the pursuits of those men been different, they might have

been as generous, as tender-hearted and just, as they are unfeeling, rapacious and

cruel. Surely this traffic cannot be good, which spreads like a pestilence, and taints

what it touches! which violates that first natural right of mankind, equality, and

independency, and gives one man a dominion over his fellows which God could

never intend!