A Summary of the Evidence Produced Before the Committee of the Privy Council, and Before a Committee of the House of Commons; Relating to the Slave Trade |
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absurd Accounts given accoutrements act of cruelty Admiral EDWARDS agrees Antigua appear arrest Barbadoes barbarism before-mentioned gentlemen better fed Black Slaves Britain called Captain carried cleansed clothes COMMITTEE Coun Country DALZEL declarations Dominica Esquire Eunuchs Euro Europeans EVIDENCE PRODUCED executing the Law gives Evidence Governor Grenada groe hammocks happy heretofore History of Africa House of Commons humane treatment Inhabitants Islands Jamaica kidnapping labouring poor less severe lodging Lord RODNEY Mahometans men of war mode of executing Natives Navy Negroes going neighbouring never saw NORRIS number of disinterested obtain Slaves over-worked particularly peans Plantations Planters Prince PRIVY COUNCIL procur purchased purpose put a stop Question put respect RHODES sacrificed savage sea-coast seized Shillings Ships Sir PETER PARKER Slave Trade SNELGRAVE Soldiers and Sailors space allowed Sugar tain taxes testimony thought proper thousands transportation from Africa trary treated troops TUDELA uncivilized understanding the Language vessel Vincent's wars West Indies Whidaw
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Page 3 - Netherlands, with the exclusive privilege to traffic and plant colonies on the coast of Africa from the Tropic of Cancer to the Cape of Good Hope ; on the coast of America, from the straits of Magellan to the remotest north.
Page 4 - Romans, until the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope by Vasco de Gama.
Page 5 - Lambe, who was captured there, 'there was scarce any stirring for Bodies without Heads; and had it rained Blood, it could not have lain thicker on the Ground'.
Page 16 - The nature of the Trade for Negroes, their kind Treatment, and happy Situation, being thus ascertained by such incontrovertible evidence ; the absurdity of calling by the name of Slaves people who are no more so than Parish Apprentices in England, except as to Duration...
Page 16 - Mahogany, Cochineal, Indigo, and other Dyeing Materials, and the Gold and Silver of the West Indies — which are all procured by the same means...
Page 16 - ... absurdity of calling by the name of Slaves people who are no more so than Parish Apprentices in England, except as to Duration — and in point of Duration not more so than the Common People in Russia, Poland, and many other parts of Europe — is apparent. How absurd and hypocritical must be the...