It may be, that the system, stripped of everything which can be taken away, will be perpetuated, for the best good of the slave and his master.
"But," said I, "while this perpetual relation of the black race to us is possible, and may be the design of a benevolent God for our happiness and that of the Africans, and while I love to use it in replying to those who, with short-sighted and somewhat passionate reasoning, as I think, contend that slavery must utterly be rooted out of the land, I confess that my own thoughts turn to the Continent of Africa as the great object for which an all-wise God has permitted slavery to exist on our shores.
"I love to look at American slavery in connection with the future history of that great African continent, containing one hundred and fifty millions of people.

History and discovered relics make the Ethiopian race to be older even than Egypt.

The once powerful nations of Northern Africa, Numidia, Mauratania, as well as the Egyptian builders of pyramids, have disappeared, or they exist only in a few Coptic tribes; and even they are of doubtful origin.

But the Ethiopian people, notwithstanding the slave-trade which has extended its degrading influence far and wide among them, and though civilization long since departed from their tribes, have continued to increase till now they are the most numerous of the human families except the Chinese.

The slave-holding nations which have pillaged them forages, have not been able to destroy them.