[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 III 115/159
He beat her, till he made her take up the child and carry it to the side of the vessel.
She then dropped it into the sea, turning her head the other way that she might not see it.
Now it would naturally be asked, Was not this captain also gibbered alive? Alas! although the execrable, barbarity of the European exceeded that of the Africans before mentioned, almost as much as his opportunities of instruction had been greater than theirs, no notice whatsoever was taken of this horrible action; and a thousand similar cruelties had been committed in this abominable trade with equal impunity: but he would say no more.
He should vote for the abolition, not only as it would do away all the evils complained of in Africa and the Middle Passage; but as it would be the most effectual means of ameliorating the condition of those unhappy persons, who were still to continue slaves in the British colonies. Mr.Courtenay rose.
He said, he could not but consider the assertion of Sir William Yonge as a mistake, that the Slave-trade, if abandoned by us, would fall into the hands of France.
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