John Henry Kruger admitted to being decidedly against the abolition of the slave trade but
had no objection in going onto a committee on it, He had heard much about benevolence and humanity but where were they to look for a just compensation for their losses?Were individuals to be sacrificed at the shrine of public humanity? Was the public prepared to lose sixty or seventy million as a price of that humanity?
Henry Cruger(1739-1827 )
Quote taken from Hereford Journal May 27th, 1789
I decided to conduct some original research using newspaper archives into the abolition of slavery and came across this quote, which I thought I would share.
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Transcript of recording of former slave Fountain Hughes.
We may look disaapprovingly at this statement but just how different are some of our attitudes today?
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