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* Again and again they had passed laws restraining the importation of negroes from Africa, but their laws were disallowed. How to prevent them from protecting themselves against the increase of the overwhelming evil was debated by the King in Council; and on the 10th of December, 1770, he issued an instruction under his own hand commanding the Governor "'''upon pain of the highest displeasure, to assent to no laws by which the importation of slaves should be in any respect prohibited or obstructed.'''"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mrUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA410 History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent, Volume 3], page 411</ref>

* Again and again they had passed laws restraining the importation of negroes from Africa, but their laws were disallowed. How to prevent them from protecting themselves against the increase of the overwhelming evil was debated by the King in Council; and on the 10th of December, 1770, he issued an instruction under his own hand commanding the Governor "'''upon pain of the highest displeasure, to assent to no laws by which the importation of slaves should be in any respect prohibited or obstructed.'''"<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mrUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA410 History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent, Volume 3], page 411</ref>

Edmund Burke, in his speech on conciliating America, in response to the suggestion that the slaves might be freed and used against the colonies, said,

[[Edmund Burke]], in his speech on conciliating America, in response to the suggestion that the slaves might be freed and used against the colonies, said,

* Dull as all men are from slavery, must they not a little suspect the offer of freedom from the very nation which had sold them to their present masters - from that nation, one of whose causes of quarrel with those masters is their refusal to deal any more in that inhuman traffic. An offer of freedom from England would come rather oddly, shipped to them in an African vessel, which is refused an entry into the ports of Virginia or Carolina, with a cargo of three hundred Angola Negroes.

* Dull as all men are from slavery, must they not a little suspect the offer of freedom from the very nation which had sold them to their present masters - from that nation, one of whose causes of quarrel with those masters is their refusal to deal any more in that inhuman traffic. An offer of freedom from England would come rather oddly, shipped to them in an African vessel, which is refused an entry into the ports of Virginia or Carolina, with a cargo of three hundred Angola Negroes.