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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...that, in the Brazils, notwithstanding the evidence of Mr. Moore to their indulgent disposition (vide 5,436), the expectation of life statistics already quoted from Dr. Thompson show that there is an utter insensibility to every consideration but that of profit. So far, therefore, as we can at present foresee, the principle of supply and demand would lead to the exportation of near a million of slaves per annum, instead of 60,000, so soon as the African blockade, the only restrictive power at present, should be removed. If we appear to insist more frequently and more strongly upon this point than is necessary, it is because it is all but entirely overlooked by the Committee. F cargo, (there could have been no crowding there!) consisting of 160, only ten escaped. Now, with what fairness can such horrors be ascribed to British interference? Would it not be equally reasonable, to impute to the judge who sentences a murderer to death, all the horrors of misery and privation endured by that murderer's orphan family? or to the hospital surgeon who annually saves a hundred lives by his capital operations, the tortures of the two or three fatal cases where skill was obliged to succumb to disease? It is worth remarking, that Mr. Tobin, the ci-devant slavetrading captain, observes, at Question 5,723, that he never believed in the cruelties practised in former times in the middle-passage; which opinion he charitably extends to one-half of the cruelties that are alleged to occur now, (vide 5,739.) Yet, this same witness admits, at 5,636, that, in a few weeks' voyage of men in prime health, (for he says, that he never took them on board in any other state,) the mortality of the middle-passage was 3 per cent.!!! Captain Denman puts the matter in the right...
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