Curated! Thank you for collecting these historical quotes. It is virtuous to make history available, and this helps a lot. I didn’t know that the sailors on slave ships died at a far greater frequency, I didn’t know about the counterarguments in favor of continuing the slave trade, and some of these quotes are very inspiring (“Never, never, will we desist...”). When compiling quotes, I always have a hard time with the tradeoff between making it short/readable, and giving full context, and I think you did a good job making this quite readable yet letting the primary sources do the talking.
I appreciate Thirdian’s pushback in the comments, and encoruage anyone who is planning to reference Thomas Clarkson elsewhere to do more research into him (I found asking an LLM for a lot of primary sources to quickly pull up a lot of helpful information).
Curated! Thank you for collecting these historical quotes. It is virtuous to make history available, and this helps a lot. I didn’t know that the sailors on slave ships died at a far greater frequency, I didn’t know about the counterarguments in favor of continuing the slave trade, and some of these quotes are very inspiring (“Never, never, will we desist...”). When compiling quotes, I always have a hard time with the tradeoff between making it short/readable, and giving full context, and I think you did a good job making this quite readable yet letting the primary sources do the talking.
I appreciate Thirdian’s pushback in the comments, and encoruage anyone who is planning to reference Thomas Clarkson elsewhere to do more research into him (I found asking an LLM for a lot of primary sources to quickly pull up a lot of helpful information).