Dr. Trotter
To be quite frank I was at first amazed that I have not heard your name mention in our fight to abolish slavery. Your time as a physician aboard the slave ship Brookes apparently has given you some insight as to the ordeal of the Middle Passage on the Africans who were forced to make this voyage, not having to undergone the ordeal I find your testimony before the British House of Commons in 1788, both enlightening and ghastly. The conditions aboard ship, although carrying 600 slaves on a ship that was to carry only 451 shows that the slave merchants valued maximizing profit over life.
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