Slavery In England
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If we view human beings on the level of goods and chattel, then we probably find nothing wrong with the institution of slavery. As Frederick Douglass noted in an address delivered in England in September 1846: “The slave is a portion of his master’s goods and chattels” (371). Laden with firearms, gunpowder, alcohol, cotton goods, beads, knives and other trade goods, British ships sailed to Africa and traded African chiefs goods of poor quality in exchange for human beings. These were fellow Africans who had been taken prisoner in tribal wars or especially for the slave trade. As Marjorie Bloy notes, “By the middle of the eighteenth century British ships were carrying about 50,000 slaves a year” (1).If we reflect upon this condition, it is apparent that Africans and other West Indies natives were used as inexpensive labor to make wealth for those who purchased them like goods and chattel. The slaves were treated deplorably and often housed in the worst conditions imaginable. Nevertheless, it was not the atrocious cruelty visited upon slaves that would remove the blinders from English Parliament with respect
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