...neither new, nor peculiar to the colour of the blacks. Homer tells us it was so 2600 years ago. [. . .] s he found must be spoken out, & it might as well be done first as last) what wd. Od. 17.323 But the slaves of which Homer speaks were whites. Notwithstanding these considerations which...
Jove fix'd it certain, that whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away. 
