An Address To The People Of Great Britain On The Propriety Of Abstaining From West India Sugar And Rum

Author : William Fox
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331128717
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Abstaining From West India Sugar and Rum written by William Fox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Propriety of Abstaining From West India Sugar and Rum Notwithstanding the late determination of the House of Commons on the Slave-Trade, we may hope that the discussion it has received will not be useless; and that the public attention has not been excited in vain, to a system of cruelty which it is painful even to recite. It may be hope that, claiming for ourselves the most perfect freedom, we shall no longer impose upon others a slavery the most oppressive; and that, enjoying a degree of felicity unequalled in any age or country, we shall no longer range the world to increase the misery of mankind. The lust of power, and the pride of conquest, have doubtless produced instances far too numerous, of man enslaved by man. But we, in an enlightened age, have greatly surpassed, in brutality and injustice, the most ignorant and barbarous ages: and while we are pretending to the finest feelings of humanity, are exercising unprecedented cruelty. We have planted slavery in the rank foil of fordid avarice; and the produce has been misery in the extreme. We have ascertained, by a course of experiments in cruelty, the least portion of nourishment requisite to enable man to linger a few years in misery, the greatest quantity of labor which, in such a situation, the extreme of punishment can extort; and the utmost degree of pain, labor, and hunger united, that the human frame can endure. In vain have such scenes been developed. The wealth derived from the horrid traffic, has created an influence that secures its continuance, unless the people at large shall refuse to receive the produce of robbery and murder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.