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"The
slaves were
a strengthening of their hands, for the Captain [Mission] ordered them
to be clothed out of the Dutch mariners chests and told his men that
the
trading for those of our own species could never be agreeable to the
eyes
of divine justice: that no man had power or liberty of another, and
while
those who professed a more enlightened knowledge of the Deity sold men
like beasts, they proved that their religion was no more than a
grimace,
and they differed from barbarians in name only."
The story
of Captain
Mission who did not "assert his own liberty, to enslave others" as told
by Captain Charles Johnson in Pirates.
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