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IT DOES NOT FOLLOW THAT per se IT WAS A CRIME. The negroes who were sold to the dealers in the factories were most of them either slaves already to worse masters or were servi, servants in the old meaning of the word, or else criminals, servati or reserved from death.
That consequently prisoners of war should have been reserved for slavery, servati ad servitium, or rather serti ad glebam, is perfectly conceivable; their destiny being known, they have simply taken their name from it. Labor is the education of our liberty. The ancients had a profound perception of this truth when they distinguished the servile arts from the liberal arts.
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