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A short sketch of the evidence for the abolition of the slave trade, delivered before a committee of the House of Commons

Chapter 1: A SHORT SKETCH OF THE EVIDENCE FOR THE ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE TRADE,
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A concise account summarizes parliamentary testimony against the slave trade, presenting documentary evidence and eyewitness statements that expose systematic brutalities at African capture, coastal procurement, and on plantations. It outlines native practices of kidnapping and war used to supply captives and details European complicity through trade goods, arms, and inducements that promote seizure and sale. The pamphlet abstracts voluminous committee records, catalogs physical cruelties, legal abuses, and economic incentives sustaining the traffic, and urges readers to recognize moral and political grounds for prohibition while recommending wider public attention and legal remedies.

A
SHORT SKETCH
OF
THE EVIDENCE
FOR THE
ABOLITION
OF THE
SLAVE TRADE,

Delivered before a Committee of the House of Commons

TO WHICH IS ADDED, A

Recommendation of the Subject

TO THE

SERIOUS ATTENTION

OF

PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

“ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM,” Matt. chap. vii. ver. 12.

LONDON, PRINTED; PHILADELPHIA:
RE-PRINTED BY DANIEL LAWRENCE.
M.DCC.XCII.