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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)

CHAPTER I
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They regulated their food both as to kind and quantity; and they preserved them from many of the impositions, to which they had been before exposed.
From the time when Mr.Wilberforce gave his first notice this session to the present, I had been variously employed, but more particularly in the composition of a new work.

It was soon perceived to be the object of our opponents, to impress upon the public the preference of regulation to abolition.

I attempted therefore to show the fallacy and wickedness of this notion.

I divided the evils belonging to the Slave-trade into two kinds.
These I enumerated in their order.

With respect to those of the first kind, I proved that they were never to be remedied by any acts of the British parliament.


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