Ottobah Cugoano wrote: "[H]owever wide [the British] have extended their territories abroad, they have sunk into a world of debt at home, which must ever remain an impending burden upon the inhabitants…The national debt casts a sluggish deadness over the whole realm, greatly stops ingenuity and improvements, promotes idleness and wickedness, clogs all the wheels of commerce, and drains the money out of the nation…And those who hold stock at home, are a kind of idle drones, as a burden to the rest of the community."

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