Question

What effect does the speaker wish to achieve by using the words commodities and barter in his speech, the Horrors of the Slave Trade?




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

Answer 1

'Horrors', gives you a conclusion it is negative items.

Answer 2

C doesn't match it, can you guess what?

Answer 3

hmm no

Answer 4

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 public principles, by national glory, still less by the love of their people. In Europe it is the extension of commerce, the maintenance of national honor, or some great public object, that is ever the motive to war with every monarch; but, in Africa, it is the personal avarice and sensuality of their kings. These two vices of avarice and sensuality, the most powerful and predominant in natures thus corrupt, we tempt, we stimulate in all these African princes, and we depend upon these vices for the very maintenance of the slave trade. Does the king of Barbessin want brandy? He has only to send his troops, in the night-time, to burn and desolate a village; the captives will serve as commodities, that may be bartered with the British trader.

The slave trade, in its very nature, is the source of such kind of tragedies; nor has there been a single person, almost, before the privy council, who does not add something by his testimony to the mass of evidence upon this point. Some, indeed, of these gentlemen, and particularly the delegates from Liverpool, have endeavored to reason down this plain principle; some have palliated it; but there is not one, I believe, who does not more or less admit it. Some, nay most, I believe, have admitted the slave trade to be the chief cause of wars in Africa.









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Answer 5

hllo

Answer 6

The way that commodities and bartered are used in this passage show that the slaves are degraded in this trade

Answer 7

So therefore D would be your answer

Answer 8

Sorry, back,


The answer would be D.

If it was about the cons of the slavery trade, it would actually be an advocate for the African Americans

Answer 9

It wouldn't really be about the against standards to Africans.