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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 IV
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The schools of Westminster, the Charter-house, St.Paul, Merchant-Taylors, Eton, Winchester, and Harrow were among those visited.

Several academies also were visited for this purpose.
But I must now take my leave of the Quakers as a public body[A], and go back to the year 1783, to record an event, which will be found of great importance in the present history, and in which only individuals belonging to the Society were concerned.

This event seems to have arisen naturally out of existing or past circumstances.

For the Society, as I have before stated, had sent a petition to Parliament in this year, praying for the abolition of the Slave-trade.

It had also laid the foundation for a public distribution of the books as just mentioned, with a view of enlightening others on this great subject.


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