_Labat_, a _Roman_ Missionary, in his account of the Isles of _America_, at page 114, of the 4th vol. mentions, that _Lewis_ the 13th, Father to the present _French_ King’s Grandfather, was extremely uneasy at a Law by which all the Negroes of his Colonies were to be made slaves; but it being strongly urged to him, as the readiest means for their Conversion to _Christianity_, he acquiesced therewith. And although we have not many accounts of the impressions which this piratical invasion of the rights of mankind gave to serious minded people, when first engaged in; yet it did not escape the notice of some, who might be esteemed in a peculiar manner as watchmen in their day to the different societies of _Christians_ whereunto they belonged. _Richard Baxter_, an eminent preacher amongst the _Nonconformists_, in the last century, well known and particularly esteemed by most of the serious _Presbyterians_ and _Independents_, in his _Christian_ Directory, mostly wrote about an hundred Years ago, fully shews his detestation of this practice in the following words: ‘Do you not mark how God hath followed you with plagues? And may not conscience tell you, that it is for your inhumanity to the souls and bodies of men?—To go as pirates and catch up poor Negroes, or people of another land, that never forfeited Life or Liberty, and to make them Slaves and sell them, is one of the worst kind of Thievery in the world; and such persons are to be taken for the common Enemies of mankind; and they that buy them, and use them as beasts, for their meer commodity, and betray, or destroy, or neglect their souls, are fitter to be called devils than _Christians_. It is an heinous sin to buy them, unless it be in charity to deliver them.——Undoubtedly they are presently bound to deliver them; because by right the man is his own; therefore no man else can have a just title to him.’