[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 IV 21/124
Not a shot was returned.
A canoe then went off to offer terms of accommodation.
The parties however not agreeing, the firing recommenced; more damage was done; and the natives were forced into submission.
There were no certain accounts of their loss. Report said that fifty were killed; but some were seen lying badly wounded, and others in the agonies of death, by those who went afterwards on shore. He would now say a few words relative to the Middle Passage, principally to show, that regulation could not effect a cure of the evil there.
Mr.Isaac Wilson had stated in his evidence, that the ship, in which he sailed, only three years ago, was of three hundred and seventy tons; and that she carried six hundred and two slaves.
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