There were many ways varying from plain sabotage where they claimed that the Portuguese merchants were thieves, up to more controversial means such as ordering their assassinations and telling the king that he should have them killed because they didn't give him presents and plan to enrich their wealth at his expense.
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It was coined during a 1964 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the University of Michigan and came to represent his domestic agenda. The main goal was the total elimination of poverty and racial injustice. ... The Great Society in scope and sweep resembled the New Deal domestic agenda of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
the was not to end slavery but rather to defend slaves
He was inspired to paint the slave ship after the publishing of the book named the history of abolishment of slave trade. It was a book by Thomas Clarkson.