Question

What effect does the speaker wish to achieve by using the words commodities and barter in his speech?


to incite the audience against African kings and princes


to encourage the audience to oppose trade with Africa


to imply the superiority of European nations


to highlight how the slave trade degrades its victims

Horrors of the Slave Trade

speech by William Wilberforce,
delivered May 12, 1789 (excerpt)

We see then, in the nature of things, how easily the practises of Africa are to be accounted for. Her kings are never compelled to war, that we can hear of, by