Considerations on the Negroe cause commonly so called Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Mansfield, lord chief justice of the Court of King's Bench, &c.

_The judgment that was given in the case of Somerset and Knowles, so contrary to the received opinions at that time, and to the general sense of the nation before, having laid t...

It is matter of course, my Lord, to say, that you are well acquainted with all the acts of parliament relative to the royal African company of England, from its establishment by...

But here, my Lord, I must beg leave to make a short digression, intentionally to wipe off an imputation, which by one of the plaintiff’s counsel was thrown on the owners and pos...

Now the physical motive supposes a difference of species among men, and an inferiority of that species in Negroes: whereas the political consideration, on the other hand, infers...

[16] In looking into Mr. Hume’s Essays, particularly the one of _national characters_ (which I had never seen till after the above argument was finished) I was made happy to obs...