[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) CHAPTER I 113/119
They regulated their food both as to kind and quantity; and they preserved them from many of the impositions, to which they had been before exposed. From the time when Mr.Wilberforce gave his first notice this session to the present, I had been variously employed, but more particularly in the composition of a new work.
It was soon perceived to be the object of our opponents, to impress upon the public the preference of regulation to abolition.
I attempted therefore to show the fallacy and wickedness of this notion.
I divided the evils belonging to the Slave-trade into two kinds. These I enumerated in their order.
With respect to those of the first kind, I proved that they were never to be remedied by any acts of the British parliament.
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