FOOTNOTES:
[1] Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons.
[2] Fox’s ditto.
[3] Printed by J. Phillips, George-Yard, Lombard Street.
[4] Wilberforce’s Speech in the House of Commons.
[5] Speech by W. Smith in the House of Commons.
[6] See Stanley’s Speech in the House of Commons.
[7] In some estates it is usual to dig a hole in the ground, which they put the bellies of pregnant women, while they whip them, that they may not excuse punishment, nor yet endanger the life of the woman or child.
[8] General Tottenham saw a youth, about nineteen, walking in the streets, in a most deplorable situation, entirely naked, and with an iron collar about his neck, with five long projecting spikes. His body, before and behind, his breech, belly and thighs, were almost cut to pieces, and with running soars all over them, and you might put your finger in some of the wheals. He could not sit down, owing to his breech being in a state of mortification, and it was impossible for him to lie down, from the projection of the prongs. The boy came to the general to ask relief. He was shocked at his appearance, and asked him what he had done to suffer such a punishment, and who inflicted it. He said it was his master, who lived about two miles from town, and that as he could not work, he would give him nothing to eat.
[9] Jamaica.
[10] Speech of W. Wilberforce, in the House of Commons.
[11] Speech of C. J. Fox in the House of Commons. Reported by Woodfall.
[12] Speech of W. Wilberforce, Esq. in the House of Commons.
[13] In one of the ships we find the slaves privately and voluntarily feeding the hungry sailors with a part of their own scanty allowance.
[14] Rom. xii. chap. 20 ver.
[15] Fox’s Speech in the House of Commons.
[16] Ezek. xxvii. 13.