But if the very person who has been _injured_, does not possess him, much less ought any other person whatsoever.] [Footnote 052: There are instances on the African continent, of _parents_ selling their _children_.

As the slaves of this description are so few, and are so irregularly obtained, we did not think it worth our while to consider them as forming an order; and, as God never gave the parent a power over his child to make him _miserable_, we trust that any farther mention of them will be unnecessary.] [Footnote 053: Abbe Raynal, Hist.Phil.

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IX.
It remains only now to examine by what arguments those, who _receive_ or _purchase_ their fellow-creatures into slavery, defend the _commerce_.