MEHAP Andrew Fortugno
Perry-Society of Friends-Address to the National Assembly in Favor of he Abolition of the Slave Trade
Thesis: The Society of Friends addressing the National Assembly do not attempt to abolish slavery itself but only to abolish the slave trade off the coast of Africa.
1. Derives its mission from the humanity that induced it to defend the blacks even under the past despotism
a. Tells the Assembly it goes along with the rights of man in which it avenged in its decrees
b. The Assembly holds the rights of man so high
2. Society of Friends not asking for black liberty or political rights that attest to and maintain the dignity of man.
a. Greed of ship owners slanders and attempts to stir up everyone against them.
b. The ship owners also want to alarm all the French that the prosperity of the colonies rest of the slave trade and perpetuity of slavery
3. Society of Friends recognizes that immediate emancipation of blacks would be a fatal operation for the colonies and even a deadly gift for the blacks.
4. No time to demand that liberty; we ask only that one cease butchering thousands of blacks regularly every year in order to take hundreds of captives.
5. Reason that colonist need to recruit blacks in Africa to sustain population is because they work and beat them to death.
6. Not far off being abolished in England, it is condemned in public opinion
7. Raises the question if the blacks were pushed in to insurrection, then should it be to the indifference of the National Assembly because it would for the rights of man they claimed for their own revolution.
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