unlike anything else
It was a beautiful day like no other, the last day I saw my home in Africa.Amazing Grace · 2006 — 第 8 / 18 章 · 2'24" · C1
Wilberforce Denounces the Slave Trade, Explained：with a heavy heart
Wilberforce rises in the House to name the slave trade for what it is, calling it a trade that "degrades men to the level of brutes." His opponents answer with money and fear: plantations, the king's coffers, and the threat that France will take over if Britain stops. The debate is fierce from the first sentence.
あらすじ
In Parliament, Wilberforce brings the slave trade to the House with a heavy heart, describing it as a business that lowers men to the level of animals. He acknowledges that many members own plantations and ships in the Indies. Opponents shout him down, accusing him of trying to ruin the country and warning that France would take over the trade if Britain stopped.
注目の表現
with a heavy hearthardly believe my earsbloodyfill the coffers
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このシーンの表現
with a heavy heart
sadly, reluctantly
Wilberforce opens his motion by saying he does this with a heavy heart, not with anger.
She said goodbye to the old team with a heavy heart.
このシーンの他の表現
- hardly believe my ears
cannot trust what I heard
- bloody
damn, a British intensifier
- fill the coffers
keep the treasury full
- have interests in
hold stakes in
このシーンのメモ一覧
17 行のセリフに 21 件のメモ
my final sight of it
It was a beautiful day like no other, the last day I saw my home in Africa.sadly, reluctantly
Wilberforce opens his motion by saying he does this with a heavy heart, not with anger.
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.formally raise for someone
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.lowers people to
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.cleft sentence: The it is ... that frame highlights the heavy heart; remove it and the sentence still stands.
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.relative clause: The which clause defines the trade; reading it separately breaks the sentence.
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.Link with a so the h almost vanishes before heavy.
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.I mean this thing
I am speaking of... the slave trade.hold stakes in
Wilberforce notes that many honourable friends have interests in the Indies, a polite way to flag their stake.
I know that many of my honourable friends in this House have interests in the Indies.decent, humane people
And I believe them to be men of humanity.packed into a hold
If the wretchedness of any one of the many hundreds of slaves stowed in their ships could be brought to view...The d in stowed is nearly dropped before in.
If the wretchedness of any one of the many hundreds of slaves stowed in their ships could be brought to view...cannot trust what I heard
An MP interrupts with hardly believe my ears, a polite way of calling the speech outrageous.
I can hardly believe my ears.a long-range plan to
It seems my young friend opposite has a long-term strategy to destroy the very nation that spawned him.give up the wealth
Now he would hand over the riches o f the Indies to the bloody French!unreal conditional: Past tense after if with would in the main clause marks a situation contrary to fact.
If... If we didn't have slaves, there would be no plantations.keep the treasury full
The MP warns that without plantations there would be nothing to fill the king's coffers.
And with no plantations, how would we fill the coffers of the king?take over from us
Does my honourable friend really believe that if we left off the trade, the French wouldn't immediately step into our place and reap the rewards?collect the benefit
Does my honourable friend really believe that if we left off the trade, the French wouldn't immediately step into our place and reap the rewards?Step into runs together; keep the p light and move straight on.
Does my honourable friend really believe that if we left off the trade, the French wouldn't immediately step into our place and reap the rewards?「Wilberforce Denounces the Slave Trade」を読み解く
What's really going on
The scene stages the argument Wilberforce will spend his career fighting. He opens with moral language — a trade that "degrades men to the level of brutes" — and even concedes that slave owners are "men of humanity," a rhetorical move meant to keep them listening. It doesn't work. The reply is pure self-interest wrapped in patriotism: they call him a traitor, invoke the dead and wounded of the American war, and warn that ending the trade only hands the profits to France. The closing question — how would they "fill the coffers of the king" without plantations — makes the real stake clear. Slavery is defended not as right but as necessary. That is the wall Wilberforce has to break, and here it answers him in the first minute.
Theme
JusticeWilberforce argues that a trade which lowers men to animals cannot be defended, setting up his lifelong campaign.
MoneyOpponents defend slavery through profit: plantations, the king's coffers and the fear that France will take the trade.
このチャプターで学べること
- A heavy heart softens the demand that follows.
- The insult is wrapped in the wording of respect.
- Believing your ears is about outrage, not hearing.
- Every rhetorical question carries the maker's fear.
発音のポイント
- with a heavy — Link with a so the h almost vanishes before heavy.
- stowed in — The d in stowed is nearly dropped before in.
- step into — Step into runs together; keep the p light and move straight on.
It is with a heavy heart that I bring to the attention of this House a trade which degrades men to the level of brutes and insults the highest qualities of our common nature.The formal opening of Wilberforce's case: he is sad, not angry, and he frames slavery as an insult to humanity itself, not merely a political issue.
It was a beautiful day like no other, the last day I saw my home in Africa.Equiano's voice opens the scene: a memory of the day he was taken from his home, which grounds the debate in a real life rather than an argument.
Does my honourable friend really believe that if we left off the trade, the French wouldn't immediately step into our place and reap the rewards?The opposing argument in one line: even if abolition were right, Britain would simply hand the profits to France. It's the pragmatic case for keeping slavery.
I believe you all to be men of humanity.Wilberforce's appeal to his opponents' better nature. He flatters them into listening, insisting they are not monsters even as they defend the trade.
このシーンについての質問
Who is speaking for the slaves at the start?
Equiano's voice describes the last day he saw his home in Africa, then Wilberforce addresses the House and names the slave trade as his target.
How do the other MPs respond to Wilberforce?
They shout and mock him. They accuse him of trying to destroy the country, remind him of the war with America, and warn that France would take the trade.
What does "fill the coffers of the king" mean?
It means to fill the royal treasury. The argument is that without slave plantations, Britain would lose the money the crown depends on.
Why does Wilberforce call the MPs men of humanity?
He is trying to keep them on his side. By insisting they are decent people, he makes the trade, not the members, the thing he is attacking.
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第 15 章flag of convenienceThe Neutral Flag Trick
第 16 章side windAbolitionists Come at a Side Wind
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