James Stout

So many Negroes thrown overboard after the rain came without any account of how they came to do it.

It is so uncommon a case.

I think upon the ground of reexamination, it ought to go to a new trial.

And he grants a motion for retrial.

Now, this is never to be.

There's not a second trial because William Grigson, head of the slaving syndicate, decides that a second trial is not going to go well, right?

And it's just going to waste money.

So let's just cut our losses and return to –

operating the slave trade at a massive, massive level.

His insurers celebrate their victory.

But you could be forgiven for seeing that at this point, the case is like an overall mixed bag or even a wash for the cause of abolitionism, right?

Because...

you know, the people who won are still involved in the slaving industry.

No one has attained any additional rights.

No one's ruled that enslaved people are human beings.

They're still the same as cargo, right?

How is this?

You could see someone, especially like a political radical at the time being like, this is the worst kind of incrementalism.

You've achieved nothing, right?

You can see how someone might think that.