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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 III
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The one we have exhausted of her wealth and her inhabitants by violence, by famine, and by every species of tyranny and murder.

The children of the other we daily carry from off the land of their nativity, like sheep to the slaughter, to return no more.

We tear them from every object of their affection, or, sad alternative, drag them together to the horrors of a mutual servitude! We keep them in the profoundest ignorance.

We gall them in a tenfold chain, with an unrelenting spirit of barbarity, inconceivable to all but the spectators of it, unexampled among former ages and other nations, and unrecorded even in the bloody registers of heathen persecution.

Such is the conduct of us enlightened Englishmen, reformed Christian.


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