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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 VIII
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Having left him my book for a month, I called upon him.

The result was that which I expected from so good a man.

He did not wait for me to ask him for his cooperation, but he offered his services in any way which I might think most eligible, feeling it his duty, as he expressed it, to become an instrument in exposing such a complication of guilt and misery to the world.

Dr.Baker became from this time an active coadjutor also, and continued so to his death.
The person, to whom I sent my work next, was the late lord Scarsdale, whose family I had known for about two years.

Both he and his lady read it with attention.


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