The highest volumes of the transatlantic slave trade came in the 1700s. During this century more than half of the total, amounting to an average of about 50,000 enslaved Africans per year, was transported. This took place mostly from the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763 until the end of the British trade in 1807.
These are the mores of the time this music was written - people boasting that they would never be slaves whilst profiting from the horrible trade themselves.
I hope you now understand how I feel about this music, Khandro and stop p1ssing into the wind.
Zacs - Master, I didn't realise what he was like but everybody knows now.