And yes...with hypocrisy...he had a sharp point.
Great Britain themselves couldn’t be beat for hypocrisy over slavery. At the time of the revolution the Brits declared slaves to be free only because they needed the fighting men. Then the British largely broke their promises to freed slaves who fought for them. Instead of giving them free passage to England, Canada, and Africa, many were simply left and returned to slavery, others were taken onboard british ships and sold back into slavery in the Caribbean. And this is after allowing it to go on in the colonies for many years.
The British were also making a buck of slavery in the south in the years leading to the civil war. (As was the north)
Its a far more complex issue than people want to acknowledge but at the same time, the pure wrongness of it is also obvious.