Was it possible to believe, that this number could have been legally convicted of crimes, for which they had justly forfeited their liberty?
The supposition was ridiculous.

The truth was, that every enormity was practised to obtain the persons of these unhappy people.

He referred those present to the case in the evidence of the African trader, who had kidnapped and sold a girl, and who was afterwards kidnapped and sold himself.

He desired them to reason upon the conversation which had taken place between the trader and the captain of the ship on this occasion.

He desired them also to reason upon the instance mentioned this evening, which had happened in the river Cameroons, and they would infer all the rapine, all the desolation, and all the bloodshed, which had been placed to the account of this execrable trade.
An attempt had been made to impress the House with the horrible scenes which had taken place in St.Domingo, as an argument against the abolition of the Slave-trade; but could any more weighty argument be produced in its favour?
What were the causes of the insurrections there?
They were two.