OUTLINE  OF   VIRGINIA    UNDER  JAMES  I.    147

As  to  these  new  African  people  with  their  sooty  faces,
their  introduction  is  a  doubtful  good,  and  about  buying
and  selling  people  there  is  a  difference  of  opinion.  At
home,  in  England,  they  cry  out  against  it  and  go  on  en-
couraging it.  There  are  **  many  complaints  against  the
governors,  captains,  and  officers  in  Virginia,  for  buying
and  selling  men  and  boys;"  and  luring  them  to  Virginia
is  "held  in  England  a  thijig  intolerable"  (1620).  Hut
then  the  luring  goes  on,  and  the  home  rulers  are  going
to  encourage,  nay,  take  open  part  in  this  new  African
business, — and  afterwards  denounce  the  Virginia  slave-
holders as  monsters.
As  to  the  indented  servants,  no  one  can  find  fault
with  that  system.  The  Company  sends  them  over,  and
they  labor  for  a  term  of  years  to  repay  the  exj)ense.
