By slavery I mean domestic slavery, or that of a servant to a master. A late ingenious writer well observes, "The variety of forms in which slavery appears, makes it almost impossible to convey a just notion of it, by way of definition. There are however certain properties which have accompanied slavery in most places, whereby it is easily distinguished from that mild domestic service which obtains in our own country." Excerpt from Thoughts Upon Slavery II. Such is the nature of Slavery: fuch the begin ning of negro-slavery in America. But fome may defire to kno v, what country an, from which the Negroes are brought P vjhat fortof men, of what temper and behaviour are they in their own country And in what manner they are generally procured, carried to, and treated in America 9.