[6] Pp. 140, 141.
[7] Busnot, History of the Reign of Muley Ismael: Preface.
[8] Gibbon, Roman Empire, Chap. LV. Vol. X. p. 190.
[9] Webster, Dictionary, word Slave.
[10] "Servitium invenere Lacedæmonii." Nat. Hist., Lib. VII. c. 57.
[11] Genesis xiv. 14; Ibid. xxxvii. 28. By these and other texts of the Scriptures, slavery, and even the slave-trade, have been vindicated. See Bruce's Travels in Africa, Book II. Ch. 2. Vol. II. p. 319. After quoting these texts, the complacent traveller says he "cannot think that purchasing slaves is in itself either cruel or unnatural."
[12] Odyssey, tr. Pope, Book XVII., 392, 393.
[13] Euripid., Iphig. in Taurid., 1400; Aristot., Polit., Lib. I. c. 1.
[14] Polit., Lib. I. c. 3. In like spirit are the words of the good Las Casas, when pleading before Charles the Fifth for the Indian races of America. "The Christian religion," he said, "is equal in its operation, and is accommodated to every nation on the globe. It robs no one of his freedom, violates none of his inherent rights, on the ground that he is a slave by nature, as pretended; and it well becomes your Majesty to banish so monstrous an oppression from your kingdoms in the beginning of your reign, that the Almighty may make it long and glorious."—Prescott, Conquest of Mexico, Vol. I. p. 379.
[15] A saying attributed by the Scholiast on Aristotle's Rhetoric to Alcidamas, a disciple of Gorgias of Leontini. See Aristotle's Ethics and Politics, tr. Gillies, Vol. II. p. 26.