1. Egyptian taskmasters obliged the Israelites to slave for them in making bricks.

2. In harmony with the Bible, Egyptian records also show that taskmasters kept written quotas for brick production.

3. To let it be landed, would be giving up the Principle of Taxation by Parliamentary Authority, against which the Continent have struggled for 10 years, it was loosing all our labour for 10 years and subjecting ourselves and our Posterity forever to Egyptian Taskmasters—to Burthens, Indignities, to Ignominy, Reproach and Contempt, to Desolation