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such occasions, the young and the able are carried 
into captivity by the victors, and the aged and in¬ 
firm commonly murdered on the spot. By these 
means, and the commutation of death into slavery 
for crimes real and pretended, are the nations of Eu¬ 
rope supplied; and it cannot surely be a question, 
amongst a humane and enlightened people, con¬ 
cerning the injustice of a traffic thus supported. 
To attempt its defence in all cases, were to offer 
an insult to the common sense of mankind, and an 
outrage on the best feelings of our nature. Yet a 
or captain under the king, and a great warrior, and had taken many 
people, whom he sold as slaves. 
S^ua^iv and Quamina (hroihers) from the Gold coast, one of them, 
as I guess, about twenty years old, the other eighteen, were born 
slaves to a man named Banafou, who had a great many other slaves, 
and sold these two to the captain that brought them to Jamaica. On 
being asked for what cause their master sold them, they supposed the 
question implied a charge against them of misconduct, and one o r 
them replied with great quickness, that they were not the only slaves 
that were sold in Guinea without having been guilty of any crime; 
their master, they said, owed money, and sold them to pay his debts. 
Afiba, a Gold coast girl, aged about fifteen, was a slave to a man 
named ^ uamina Tati. Her master sold her and two others to the 
same captain, for a quantity of linen and other goods. 
Tamousa , a Cbatnba youth, about sixteen, was a slave to a peison 
named Soubadou ; who sold him, together with a a cow, for a g ur) j a 
quantity of other goods, and some brandy. 
Oliver, from Assiante—hh country name Sang —a young man, as I 
guess, about twenty-two or twenty-three years of age. His father 
was a free man, a carpenter— lived in a village far from the sea. Th. 
