[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 72/124
He would let loose a banditti against the most weak and defenceless of the sex.
He would occasion these to kill fathers, husbands, and brothers, to get possession of their relatives, the females, who, after this carnage, were to be reserved for--slavery.
He should like to see the man, who would pen such a moderate clause for a British Parliament. Mr.Dundas had proposed to abolish the Slave-trade, by bettering the state of the slaves in the islands, and particularly that of their offspring.
His plan, with respect to the latter, was not a little curious.
They were to become free, when born; and then they were to be educated at the expense of those to whom their fathers belonged.
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