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...The issue that roused him most was slavery. Tarleton was fervently for it. He argued that the economy of Liverpool would be ruined without it (his own family had made its fortune out of the slave trade) and maintained that, in any case, the slaves themselves were happy with their condition. “The common sense of the empire,” he claimed, “will strangle this modern attempt at mistaken philanthropy.”...

This aspect of his persona was portrayed extremely well in the recent movie "Amazing Grace" which was about William Wilberforce's role in the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. The actor who played Tarleton, Ciaran Hinds, did an outstanding job, just as he did in his role as Julius Caesar in the HBO/BBC television series "Rome".