The negros, known as a modern English, full with lights and humanity, did not become slaves by the right of the war; they do not devote either voluntarily themselves to the constraint, and consequently their children are not born slaves. Nobody is not unaware of that they are bought their princes, who claim to have right to have their freedom, and whom the traders make them transport in the same way that their other goods, either in their colonies, or in America where they expose them on sale.

If a trade of this kind can be justified by a principle of morals, there is crime, some atrocious that it is, that one cannot legitimate. The kings, the princes, the magistrates are not the owners of their subjects, they are thus not in right to have their freedom and to sell them for slaves. On another side, no man has right to buy them or to go the Master of it; the men and their freedom are not an object of trade; they can be neither sold, neither bought, nor paid at any price. It should be concluded from there that a man whose slave escapes, should be caught some only with itself, since it had acquired at money price illicit goods, and whose acquisition was prohibited to him by all the laws of humanity and equity.

There is not thus only one of these unfortunate which one claims to be only slaves, who does not have right to be declared free, since it never lost freedom; that it could not lose it; and that its prince, his father, and anyone in the world did not have the power to have which it; consequently the sale which was made by it is null in itself; this negro does not strip himself, and can even never strip its natural right; it carries it everywhere with him, and it can require everywhere that one let it enjoy. It is thus a manifest inhumanity on the part of the judges of the free countries where it is transported, not to free it at the moment while it declaring free, since it is their similar, having a heart like them.