"Why more than the German labourers?"
"They do in the free States. They are dying out there constantly."
"What makes them more vicious than other people?"
"The coloured people always are."
"You mean because their colour is the badge of slavery?"
"Yes."
"Then, when it is no longer so, the degradation, for aught you know, will cease."
This is the circle, described by those who pity the slaves. There is another, appropriate to those who pity the masters.
"What is to become of the planters, without any labourers? They must shut up and go away; for they cannot stay in their houses, without any labourers on the plantations."
"Are the slaves to be all buried? Or are they to evaporate? or what?"