Wretches

"THAT some desperate wretches should be willing to steal and enslave men but that many civilized, nay, christianized people should approve, and be concerned in the savage practice, is surprising; and still persist, though it has been so often proved contrary to the light of nature, to every principle of Justice and Humanity, and even good policy, by a succession of eminent men, and several late publications."
--Thomas Paine,
"African Slavery in America" (March, 1775)