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a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes
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and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.
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I am speaking of... the slave trade.
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I know that many of my honourable friends in this House
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have interests in the Indies.
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Others have investments in plantations. Others are ship owners.
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And I believe them to be men of humanity.
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I believe you all to be men of humanity.
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If the wretchedness of any one of the many hundreds
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of slaves stowed in their ships
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could be brought to view...
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Order! Order!