...Captain Richard Jobson, speaking of the African slave merchants, ' that we were a people who did not deal in any such commodities ; neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our shapes : at which they seemed to marvel much, and told us it was the only merchandise they carried...

...crosse He offers their bodies, which hee told me were slaves, s. brought for me to buy, I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes; he seemed to marvell much at it, and...

...some slaves by a native trader. "I made answer," Jobson relates, "we were a people who did not deal in any such commodities; neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shapes ; at which he seemed to marvel much, and told us it was the only merchandize they carried...

...Jobson eccentric in his response to an African chief's offer to buy some "slaves": "I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes." By the seventeenth century, after all,...

...offered young female slaves but refused point-blank to buy. He told the Manding merchant that the English were 'a people who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shapes'. When the merchant protested that slaves...

...gold and ivory off Africa's west coast was offered slaves, he answered with truth that the English "were a people who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our owne shapes."2 Even the first Negroes in the colonies,...

...to Africa, he refused to engage in slave-trading because the English "were a people who did not deal in any such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another or any that had our own shapes."28 When the local dealer insisted that it was the custom there to sell Africans "to white...

...in 162 I is extensively quoted on behalf of the English at that time, who, he said, "did not deal in such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shape."6 By the time of the Restoration in the 1660s, Charles II strengthened English merchant...

...slave trading himself. He writes that when offered slaves to buy by a local chief: 'I made answer, We were a people, who did not deale in any such commodities, neither did wee buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shape.' But he does note what he sees as a resemblance...

...himself and not for the Guinea Company, he declared proudly that "we were a people who did not deal in such commodities, neither did we buy or sell one another, or any that had our own shapes." The African merchant seemed to marvel at this, and "told us it was the only merchandise...