‘That the Africans are an inferior link in the grand chain of nature is a prejudice, which has been indulged in and propagated by Europeans, especially in modern times, from considerations peculiarly sordid and contemptible; the fact is that the mental faculties of the n******* are by no means of a subordinate description to those of any other men.’ Belfast News Letter, 1786.
How Belfast stood up to the slave trade.
Will we do it again?
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