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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 II
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Others were walking arm in arm and singing tumultuously.

Others were standing and conversing earnestly together.

Among the latter I heard one declare with great vehemence, "that it should not be; that the revolution must go on." On my arrival at Paris in the evening the Palais Royale was full of people, and there were movements and buzzings among them, as if something was expected to happen.

The next day, when I went into the streets it was obvious what was going to take place.

Suffice it to say, that the next evening the King and Queen were brought prisoners into Paris.


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