The experience of being enslaved soon leads Arthur to become an abolitionist: "We had a rough time for a month, tramping to and fro in the earth, and suffering. And what Englishman was the most interested in the slavery question by that time? His grace the king! Yes, from being the most indifferent, he was become the most interested. He was become the bitterest hater of the institution I ever heard talk."
The Barrett Collection, UVA PS1308 .A1 1889