[2] Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol. ix. chap. lvi. p. 465.
[3] Jefferson, without recognizing the general parallel, alludes to Virginia as fast sinking to be "the Barbary of the Union."—Writings, vol. iv. p. 333.
[4] Sismondi's Literature of the South of Europe, vol. iii. chap. 29, p. 492.
[5] The exact amount is left uncertain both by Smollet and Thomas Roscoe in their lives of Cervantes. It appears that it was five hundred gold crowns of Spain, which, according to his Spanish biographer, Navarrete, is 6770 reals, (Vida de Cervantes, p. 371.) The real is supposed to be less than ten cents.
[6] Pp. 140, 141.
[7] Gibbon's Roman Empire, vol. x. chap. 55, p. 190.
[8] Nat. Hist. lib. vii. c. 57.
[9] 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, vol. ii. p. 319. After quoting these texts, the complacent traveller says he "cannot think that purchasing slaves is either cruel or unnatural."
[10] Odyssey, book xvii.
[11] Pol. lib. i. c. 1.