“ It is shocking to human Nature, that any Race of Mankind and their Posterity should be sentanc'd to perpetual Slavery; nor in Justice can we think otherwise of it, that they are thrown amongst us to be our Scourge one Day or other for our Sins: And as Freedom must be as dear to them as it is to us, what a Scene of Horror must it bring about! ”

“ We are not rich, and becoming Debtors for Slaves, in Case of their running away or dying, would inevitably ruin the poor Master , and he become a greater Slave to the Negroe-Merchant, than the slave he bought could be to him. ”

“ The Nearness of the Spaniards, who have proclaimed Freedom to all Slaves who run away from their Masters, makes it impossible for us to keep them, without more labor in guarding them than what we would be at to do their work. ”