The Slave Trade, though nominally abolished, is actively pursued here, eighty-three slaves having been landed just before my arrival, and another cargo during my stay.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

He is the slave of the Lord's slaves.

At several such places we landed, but always found the ascent to the interior so covered with large loose rocks that it would have been impossible to have disembarked stores or stock on any.

The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and such a trade is diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind.

Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.