An Essay On the Slavery And Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
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Phil. Vol. 4. P. 154. ] * * * * * CHAP. IX. It remains only now to examine by what arguments those, who_receive_ or _purchase_ their fellow-creatures into slavery, defend the _commerce_. Their first plea is, "that they receivethose with propriety, who are convicted of crimes, because they aredelivered into their hands by _their own magistrates_. " But what isthis to you _receivers_? Have the unfortunate _convicts_ beenguilty of injury to _you_? Have they broken _your_ treaties?Have they plunder...ed _your_ ships? Have they carried _your_wives and children into slavery, that _you_ should thus retaliate?Have they offended _you_ even by word or gesture? But if the African convicts are innocent with respect to you; if youhave not even the shadow of a claim upon their persons; by what right doyou receive them? "By the laws of the Africans, " you will say; "by whichit is positively allowed. "--But can _laws_ alter the nature ofvice? They may give it a sanction perhaps: it will still be immutablythe same, and, though dressed in the outward habiliments of_honour_, will still be _intrinsically base_.
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