put as pirates, and take any poor Africans, and eople of another land, who never forfeited hfe or librty, and make them slaves, or sell them, are the worst f robbers, and ought to be considered as the comlon enemies of mankind; and that they who buy hem, and use them as mere beasts of burden, for their own convenience, regardless of their spiritual welfare, are fitter to be called demons than Chrisians."
Many other treatises and tracts were published, which took the strongest ground against the traffic. As early as 1739, the eloquent preacher of righteousless. Rev. George Whitefield, while in America, addressed a letter to the settlers in districts where slavery existed, which produced a marked effect; and to the close of life, he pleaded for the oppressed with great success. The following is an extract from said letter:
