They were then carried across the Atlantic, in a manner too horrible to describe; and afterwards subjected to eternal slavery.

In support of the continuance of such a traffic, he knew of nothing but assertions already disproved, and arguments already refuted.

Since the year 1796, when it was to cease by a resolution of Parliament, no less than three hundred and sixty thousand Africans had been torn away from their native land.

What an accumulation was this to our former guilt! General Gascoyne made two extraordinary assertions: First, that the trade was defensible on Scriptural ground.--"Both thy bondmen and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen, that are round about thee; of them shall you have bondmen and bondmaids.

And thou shalt take them as an heritance for thy children after thee to inherit them for a possession; they shall be thy bondmen for ever." Secondly, that the trade had been so advantageous to this country, that it would have been advisable even to institute a new one, if the old had not existed.
Mr.Wilberforce replied to General Gascoyne.