He recited and refuted also the various arguments adduced in defence of the trade.

He showed that it was destructive to our seamen.
He produced many weighty arguments also against the slavery itself.

He proposed clauses for an Act of Parliament for the abolition of both; showing the good both to England and her colonies from such a measure, and that a trade might be substituted in Africa, in various articles, for that which he proposed to suppress.

By means of the diffusion of light like this, both of a moral and political nature; Dr.Gregory is entitled to be ranked among the benefactors to the African race.
In the same year, Gilbert Wakefield preached a sermon at Richmond, in Surrey, where, speaking of the people of this nation, he says, "Have we been as renowned for a liberal communication of our religion and our laws as for the possession of them! Have we navigated and conquered to save, to civilize, and to instruct; or to oppress, to plunder, and to destroy?
Let India and Africa give the answer to these questions.

The one we have exhausted of her wealth and her inhabitants by violence, by famine, and by every species of tyranny and murder.