We also find _George Fox_, a man of exemplary piety, who was the principal instrument in gathering the religious society of people called _Quakers_, expressing his concern and fellow-feeling for the bondage of the Negroes: In a discourse taken from his mouth, in _Barbadoes_, in the Year 1671, says, ‘Consider with yourselves, if you were in the same condition as the Blacks are,—who came strangers to you, and were sold to you as slaves. I say, if this should be the condition of you or yours, you would think it hard measure: Yea, and very great bondage and cruelty. And, therefore, consider seriously of this, and do you for and to them, as you would willingly have them, or any other to do unto you, were you in the like slavish condition; and bring them to know the Lord Christ.’ And in his journal, page 431, speaking of the Advice he gave his friends at _Barbadoes_, he says, ‘I desired also, that they would cause their Overseers to deal mildly and gently with their Negroes, and not to use cruelty towards them, as the manner of some had been; and that after certain years of servitude they should make them free.’ In a book printed in _Leverpool_, called _The Leverpool Memorandum-book_, which contains, among other things, an account of the Trade of that port, there is an exact list of the vessels employed in the _Guinea_ Trade, and of the number of Slaves imported in each vessel, by which it appears, that in the year 1753, the number imported to _America_, by vessels belonging to that port, amounted to upwards of Thirty Thousand; and from the number of Vessels employed by the _African_ Company in _London_ and _Bristol_, we may, with some degree of certainty conclude, there is, at least, One Hundred Thousand Negroes purchased and brought on board our ships yearly from the coast of _Africa_, on their account. This is confirmed in _Anderson_’s History of Trade and Commerce, printed in 1764, where it is said, at page 68 of the Appendix, ‘That _England_ supplies her _American_ Colonies with Negro-slaves, amounting in number to above One Hundred Thousand every year.’ When the vessels are full freighted with slaves, they set out for our plantations in _America_, and may be two or three months on the voyage, during which time, from the filth and stench that is among them, distempers frequently break out, which carry off a great many, a fifth, a fourth, yea, sometimes a third of them; so that taking all the slaves together that are brought on board our ships yearly, one may reasonably suppose, that at least ten thousand of them die on the voyage. And in a printed account of the State of the Negroes in our plantations, it is supposed that a fourth part, more or less, die at the different Islands, in what is called the seasoning. Hence it may be presumed, that, at a moderate computation of the slaves, who are purchased by our _African_ merchants in a year, near thirty thousand die upon the voyage and in the seasoning. Add to this, the prodigious