Conditions,
Colour, and Hair, that they can never embody with us, & grow
up in orderly Families, to the Peopling of the Land; but
still remain in our Body Politick as a kind of extravasat
Blood. As many Negro Men as there are among us, so many
empty Places are there in our Train Bands, and the places
taken up of Men that might make Husbands for our Daughters.
And the Sons and Daughters of _New England_ would become
more like _Jacob_ and _Rachel_, if this Slavery were thrust
quite out of Doors. Moreover it is too well known what
Temptations Masters are under, to connive at the
Fornication of their Slaves; lest they should be obliged to
find them Wives, or pay their Fines. It seems to be
practically pleaded that they might be lawless; 'tis thought
much of, that the Law should have satisfaction for their
Thefts, and other Immoralities; by which means, _Holiness to
the Lord_ is more rarely engraven upon this sort of
Servitude. It is likewise most lamentable to think, how in
taking Negroes out of _Africa_, and selling of them here,
That which GOD has joined together, Men do boldly rend
asunder; Men from their Country, Husbands from their Wives,
Parents from their Children. How horrible is the
Uncleanness, Mortality, if not Murder, that the Ships are
guilty of that bring great Crowds of these miserable Men and
Women. Methinks when we are bemoaning the barbarous Usage of
our Friends and Kinsfolk in _Africa_, it might not be
unreasonable to enquire whether we are not culpable in
forcing the _Africans_ to become Slaves amongst ourselves.
And it may be a question whether all the Benefit received by
_Negro_ Slaves will balance the Accompt of Cash laid out
upon them; and for the Redemption of our own enslaved
Friends out of _Africa_. Besides all the Persons and Estates
that have perished there.

"Obj. 1. _These Blackamores are of the Posterity of Cham,
and therefore are under the Curse of Slavery_. Gen. 9, 25,
26, 27.

"_Ans._ Of all Offices, one would not beg this; viz.
Uncall'd for, to be an Executioner of the Vindictive Wrath
of God; the extent and duration of which is to us uncertain.
If this ever was a Commission; How do we know but that it is
long since out of Date? Many have found it to their Cost,
that a Prophetical