...Englishman Boswell said: "To abolish [slavery] . . . would be extreme cruelty to the African savage, a portion of whom it saves from massacre or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduced into a much happier life, especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their...

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...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellowsubjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...country, and introduces into a much happier state of life (156). Reeve's beliefs on the abolition of slavery, then, though mistaken, were quite conventional...

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...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish this trade would be to 'shut the gates of mercy on mankind'.9 Again, it is worth while to notice this...

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...structural similarity of such claims to past justifications of slavery: "[The abolition of slavery] would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...and introduces into a much happier state of life." Citation ascribed to James Boswell and is given in M. Spiegel, The Dreaded Comparison: Human and Animal...