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cruelty unspecified sense

concept · 1 mention

Cruel treatment in the slave trade

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Buxton

  • trade with Brazil accompanied with increase in cruelty cruelty
    assertsnegativesource: sugar-pg52820
    accompanied with an increase in the cruelty with which it is carried on
    judge verdicts (4)
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage: 'the result of our treaty-making with Brazil, according to the source of information, the Parliamentary Papers A and B, has been an increase in the extent of her trade, accompanied with an increase in the cruelty with which it is carried on.' The exact quote provided matches the passage verbatim.
    • qualifier_fidelity 0.65 fail — The viewpoint qualifier is unfaithful. The passage attributes this statement to 'Buxton' (cited as 'Buxton, p. 174'), not to 'Parliamentary Papers A and B.' While the passage mentions that Parliamentary Papers A and B are the 'source of information' for the claim, the direct attribution and quotation are to Buxton. The viewpoint should be 'Buxton' to match the passage's attribution structure. The quote, stance, sentiment, time, and context qualifiers are all faithful.
    • groundedness 1.00 pass — The claim is directly stated in the passage. The text explicitly quotes that the result of treaty-making with Brazil has been "an increase in the extent of her trade, accompanied with an increase in the cruelty with which it is carried on," with the example of mortality rising from 8% to 25% on the middle passage between 1830 and 1840.
    • qualifier_fidelity 0.90 pass — The claim is highly faithful to the passage. The viewpoint is correctly attributed to Buxton (per the citation), the stance is accurately 'asserts' rather than disputes, the sentiment is appropriately negative, and the quote appears verbatim. The time qualifier is correctly null since the passage does not provide a specific temporal scope for this statement itself (though it does cite data from 1830 and 1840, these are embedded in the broader claim about the treaty's result). Context is appropriately empty. Minor note: the claim could have included the temporal evidence (1830-1840 data) mentioned in the passage as supporting detail, but this is not a qualifier fidelity issue.