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The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I

CHAPTER XVIII
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He came to inform me of his own ill-usage; from which circumstance I found that he had sailed in the same ship with Peter Green.

This led me to inquire into the transaction in question, and I received from him the following, account:-- Peter Green had been shipped as steward.

A black woman, of the name of Rodney, went out in the same vessel.

She belonged to the owners of it, and was to be an interpretess to the slaves who should be purchased.

About five in the evening, some time in the month of September, the vessel then lying in Bonny river, the captain, as was his custom, went on shore.


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