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Despite the established treaties, and the continued voyages that impede on the selling of human bodies on the market like any other commodity, the African continent loses more than 400 thousand people from this traffic who are transported to the opposite regions of America. And, again, despite the principles that dictated those treaties, one instigates and lends a hand in a way to a similar market for part of these same people who took away their voice (CHECK THIS). Whatever the intentions are, it is a sure and undeniable fact that in him there is a serious lack of consequence.  

But this inconsequence is natural and complies to the abnormal state in which it lives, and it has upset society for some time (CHECK THIS). In the terrible physical and moral fight between power and law, between the spirit of the old society and the principles that will have to enliven a new one, the truth is felt. From it, the parties at war would like to deduce conjectures of self-interest, they would like to bend it to their different concerns, they would like to fit it to their own shape, and what outcome do you hope for from this bastard admittance? Without reality in truth, this is no more than a distortion in appearances, and in applying the usual loyalty from which it emanates, the principles of liberty and brotherhood are owing in the humanitarian work (CHECK THIS). Inconsequence, therefore, will last as long as this fight does, and until the entire society shows itself to be tired of this war and wants to rest in the shade of a lasting peace, and not of a deceitful one.  

I will not say how the voyages from the other side of this continent have only made the commodity of human bodies more expensive awaited (CHECK) the dangers that go towards those who profit; I will only mention one consequence that this market has in common with the one that we see Europeans doing with our own eyes, and this is the mortality of the purchased slaves due to diseases that develop from the influence of new climates and temperatures opposite those of their natural regions. This consequence is very well proven by science, and when other reasons are lacking, this one, that should shake every principle of humanity, should bring European powers to quickly take appropriate action to rid the evil from its roots.  

I was saying that under our own eyes this market is fomented. And in reality, who could ever believe that an effective way to destroy slavery today is to buy ten black people, then after a few months buy another ten, then more, and little by little declare those that you bought to be free? Will the despicable market not exist forever with this method? Is it not, like I was saying, instigating it instead?  

Now having shown the same fact that through this way, slavery cannot be destroyed, what other goal can one have in similar work that, on the one hand, maintains the market more active than ever, and on the other, prematurely sacrifices many human lives who from their extremely hot lands are taken on a voyage through the freezing climate of the north?

If one wants to suggest the goal of education, this moral work is opposed by the immorality of certain offenses and by problematic advantages.

The damages from this effort are that the market of human bodies receives additional support; the mortality that the black people who have been purchased are subjected to, and the lack of people in agricultural and business undertakings which leads to the crippling of natural resources. All of this sacrifice to suggest education? But if some of these slaves arrive at the day where they see their homeland again, they will suffer from the ancient habits, the simplicity of the customs, the monotonous love of a domestic and pastoral life, or they will instead want to bring over all of the abuse and vices from which old Europe will be abandoned?