Identifier: historyofslavery5491blak (find matches)
Title: The history of slavery and the slave trade, ancient and modern : the forms of slavery that prevailed in ancient nations, particularly in Greece and Rome ; the African slave trade and the political history of slavery in the United States
Year: 1860 (1860s)
Authors: Blake, William O
Subjects: Slavery Slave trade Slavery Antislavery movements Antislavery movements
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : H. Miller
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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• t »I ¥ nJT» * * f ■ OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. 209 St. Domingo, in consequence of the revolution which had been effected there,and an insurrection had broken out in the British island of Dominica. AHthese had been industriously exaggerated in print, and produced a terrificeffect upon many members. In this unfavorable frame of mind they went intothe house on the day appointed. On the eighteenth of April, 1T91, Mr. Wilberforce made his motion. Hebegan by expressing a hope that the present debate, instead of exciting asper-ity and confirming prejudice, would tend to produce a general conviction o.the truth of what in fact was incontrovertible ; that the abolition of the slave-trade was indispensably required of them, not only by morality and religion,but by sound policy. He stated that he should argue the matter from theevidence. He adverted to the character, situation, and means of informationof his own witnesses; and having divided his subject into parts, the first ofwhich re

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