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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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He was the nearest relation of a rich person concerned in the traffic; and if he were to come forward with his evidence publicly, he should ruin all his expectations from that quarter.
In the same week I have visited another at a still greater distance.

I have met with similar applause.

I have heard him describe scenes of misery which he had witnessed, and on the relation of which he himself almost wept.

But mark the issue again.--"I am a surgeon," says he: "through that window you see a spacious house.

It is occupied by a West Indian.


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