The only essential connection that has existed and continued between the Negroes and Europeans is that of slavery. In this the Negroes see nothing unbecoming them; and the English, who have done most for abolishing the slave trade and slavery, are treated by the Negroes themselves as enemies. For it is a point of first importance with the kings to sell their captured enemies, or even their own subjects; and viewed in the light of such facts, we may conclude _slavery_ to have been the occasion of the increase of human feeling among Negroes. Tyranny is regarded as no wrong, and _cannibalism is looked upon as quite customary and proper_. Among us, instinct deters from it, if we can speak of instinct at all as appertaining to man. But with the Negro this is not the case, and the _devouring of human flesh is altogether consistent with the general principles of the African race_; to the sensual Negro, human flesh is but an object of sense,--mere flesh. At the death of a king, hundreds are killed and eaten; prisoners are butchered, and _their flesh is sold in the markets_. The victor is accustomed to eat the heart of his slain foe. When magical rites are performed, it frequently happens that the sorcerer kills the first that comes in his way, _and divides his body among the bystanders_. [4] Says Herder,--But the peculiar formation of the members of the human body says more than all these; and this appears to me applicable in the African organization. According to various physiological observations, the lips, breasts, and private parts, are proportionate to each other; and as nature, agreeably to the simple principle of her plastic art, must have conferred on these people, to whom she was obliged to deny nobler gifts, an ampler measure of sensual enjoyment, this could not but have appeared to the physiologist. _According to the rules of physiognomy, thick lips are held to indicate a sensual disposition_; as thin lips, displaying a slender, rosy line, are deemed symptoms of chaste and delicate taste; not to mention other circumstances. _What wonder, then, that in a nation for whom the sensual appetite is the height of happiness, external marks of it should appear?_ A Negro child is born white; the skin round the nails, the nipples, and private parts, first become colored; and the same consent of parts in the disposition to color is observable in other nations. _A hundred children are a trifle to a Negro; and an old man who had not above seventy, lamented his fate with tears._