They showed the Africans to be naturally a savage people, and that we did them a great kindness by taking them from their country.

Alderman Sawbridge maintained that, if the abolition passed, the Africans, who could not be sold as slaves, would be butchered at home; while those, who had been carried to our islands, would be no longer under control.

Hence insurrections, and the manifold evils which belonged to them.

Alderman Newnham was certain that the abolition would be the ruin of the trade of the country.

It would affect even the landed interest, and the funds.