“ Whether the Natives of Africa, thus procured, transported, and enslaved, are not equal to the Europeans in Capacity, Feeling, Affection, and Moral Character, and whether if Individuals should be found inferior in Moral Character, it be not owing to their Connection with the latter, or to the Trade in Slaves. ”

“ The natives, says he, are particularly skilful in manufacturing gold and iron. The art of working the former, he believes, they derived from the Moors, but they are now almost the sole artists themselves, having never seen but one Moor working in that branch. They are equal to any European goldsmith in filagree or trinket work, and even in other articles, such as buckles, except in the chasses, tongues, and anchors, which they do not manufacture so well. The iron which they forge is on anvils of a remarkable hard and heavy wood, when they cannot get stone for the purpose. ”

“ Trotter says, they are susceptible of all the social virtues, and he has seen no bad habits, but among those (one instance excepted) who were engaged in trade with the whites.
Lieutenant Storey says, that they are more honest inland than upon the shore.
They are also described by Mr. Towne to be in general hospitable and kind, but to differ as our own people in character. Those, who live inland, are innocent: those on the coast learn to be roguish, which he ascribes to their intercourse with the Europeans. ”