Captain John Newton of the ship Duke of Argyle is one of them who “treated his human cargoes as harshly as any other slave captain” (Hine 43). Though he was once an indentured servant and saw at firsthand what it was to be a slave didn’t have mercy for the ones he was carrying to slavery. Though time made him change his mind about slavery and had him “become one of its leading opponents” (Hine 43). Newton at the time he was involved in the slave trade saw this as an ordinary thing to do and saw no wrong with it. He viewed the slaves as property he could get money for and didn’t even stop to think if they had feelings like he
Captain John Newton of the ship Duke of Argyle is one of them who “treated his human cargoes as harshly as any other slave captain” (Hine 43). Though he was once an indentured servant and saw at firsthand what it was to be a slave didn’t have mercy for the ones he was carrying to slavery. Though time made him change his mind about slavery and had him “become one of its leading opponents” (Hine 43). Newton at the time he was involved in the slave trade saw this as an ordinary thing to do and saw no wrong with it. He viewed the slaves as property he could get money for and didn’t even stop to think if they had feelings like he