Ontario High School History of England . mined foes the slave-trade went on throughout the century, and fully seventy-five thousand negroes were carried annually in slave-shipsamid conditions so horrible that about one half perished orwere permanently injured. In 1783 the master of the Zong, aBritish slave-ship, threw overboard one hundred and thirty-two negroes. He claimed that a storm made this stepnecessary; but it was provedthat sickness was raging amongthe negroes, and that, on the pleaof a storm, they were destroyed, sothat the insurance companies shouldhave to pay for them. Suchbrutalit
Ontario High School History of England . mined foes the slave-trade went on throughout the century, and fully seventy-five thousand negroes were carried annually in slave-shipsamid conditions so horrible that about one half perished orwere permanently injured. In 1783 the master of the Zong, aBritish slave-ship, threw overboard one hundred and thirty-two negroes. He claimed that a storm made this stepnecessary; but it was provedthat sickness was raging amongthe negroes, and that, on the pleaof a storm, they were destroyed, sothat the insurance companies shouldhave to pay for them. Suchbrutality stimulated the movementfor the abolition of the slave-trade, a movement in which WilliamWilberforce was the leader. Atlast the trade was abolished in1807. Duelling, which also involvedthe needless sacrifice of life, stillflourished. To kill in a duel wasby law the same as murder; yeteven moral leaders like Wilberforcethought the practice a social necessity in defence ofhonour. Not until the nineteenth century did it die out William Wilbkrforck(1759-1833) society in england in the eighteenth century 4255. Literature The novelists.—English prose, which reached such per-fection in the essay writers of the age of Anne, was to findunder the Georges a new form of expression, the novel. Wefind tellers of stories earlier than this, the greatest of themthe author of Robinf<on Crusoe (p. 265). But such storiesof adventure differ from a novel, which really involves atale of love, worked up to a sad or a happy conclusion. In1740, Samuel Richardson (1689-1761), a successful Londonbookseller, published Pamela, the first novel. His laterbooks Clarissa Harlowe and Sir Charles Grandison arebetter than Pamela, and all are love stories concerned withthe struggle of virtue against vice; they mark, indeed, arevival of popular Puritanism which differs in expressionfrom that of the days of Bunyan, but is not less real. Theyare full of intense and vivid emotion, and were read withab
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