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come now to- the evil as it has been proved
to arise in the third case to consider the situa
ton of. the unhappy victims of the trade, when
their painful voyage is over, or after they have
been landed upon their destined shores. And
here we are to view them in the degrading light of
cattle. We are to them examined, handled,
selected, separated, and sold also. Relatives are
separated from relatives, if like cattle, they had
rational intellect no power of feeling the near
ness of relationship, no sense of the duties belong
ing to the ties of life. We are next to see them
laboring, and this for the benefit of those to whom
they are under no obligation by law, either natu-
raj or divine, to obey We are to see them, if re-
fusing the commands of their purchasers, howev-
er weary or>feebe Or indisposed, subject to cor
poreal punishment, and if forceably resisting them
to death, we are to see them in state of general
degradation and misery. The knowledge which
their oppressors have of their own crime in hav-
ing violated the rights of nature, and of the dis
position ofthe injured, to seek all opportunities of
revenge, produces fear which dictates to them
the necessity of system of treatment by which
they shall keep wide distinction between the
two, and by which the noble feelings of the latter
shall be kept down and their spirits broken.


We are toasee them again subject to ndvidu.
al persecution, such as anger, malice or any bad
passion may suggest, Hence the whip, the iron
collar, the chain. Hence the various modes of
private torture, of which so many accounts have
been truly given.