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THE SLAVERS' PROFIT
- Nine Hundred Pounds on One Voyage of the Newport Slaver Sanderson, a Vessel that was Offered for Sale at £450 with No Buyers — One Voyage of the Liverpool Slaver Enterprise that Paid £24,430 — Details of Expenses and Receipts on a Voyage of the Ninety-ton Schooner La Fortuna — A Baltimore Schooner's Profit of $100,000 — When the Venus Cleared $200,000 — Sums Paid to Captains and Crews — Slave Transportation Compared with Modern Passenger Traffic,Page 82
SLAVER LEGISLATION IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES
- The Colonies often Levied Taxes on Imported Slaves, and these Duties were in Rare Cases Prohibitive, but this Legislation was always Based on Commercial Considerations Only, or else a Fear of Negro Insurrections — Great Britain Never Forced the Slave-trade on them Against Their Virtuous Protest — Georgia's Interesting Slave History,Page 90
THE EARLY WORK FOR EXTIRPATION
- The Words and Deeds of the Fanatics — The Quakers — Slaves that were Freed by Baptism — Granville Sharp as a Liberator — A Fanatic's Political Creed Plainly Stated — Widespread Influence of the Somerset Case when the Right Prevailed in England — A Policy that would not Square Well with a Practical Business Sense of Things — The American Declaration of Independence and the Black Men,Page 98
THE SLAVERS OUTLAWED
- British Abolitionists and Their Work — After a Crusade of only Twenty Years, They Outlawed a Trade that, from a Business Point of View, had been the most Profitable in the United Kingdom — The Slave-trade and the American Constitution — Inauguration of the System of Compromises that Led to the Civil War — Slave-trade Legislation of the States — The Act of March 2, 1807,Page 106
