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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4

INTRODUCTION
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On the following day we dined, by invitation, with the superintendent of the Wesleyan mission, in company with several missionaries.

_Freedom in Antigua_ was the engrossing and delightful topic.

They rejoiced in the change, not merely from sympathy with the disinthralled negroes, but because it had emancipated them from a disheartening surveillance, and opened new fields of usefulness.

They hailed the star of freedom "with exceeding great joy," because it heralded the speedy dawning of the Sun of Righteousness.
We took an early opportunity to call on the Governor, whom we found affable and courteous.

On learning that we were from the United States, he remarked, that he entertained a high respect for our country, but its slavery was a stain upon the whole nation.


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