[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808) by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link book
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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He made his own manufactory contribute to this end.

He took the seal of the committee, as exhibited in the first volume, for his model; and he produced a beautiful cameo, of a less size, of which the ground was a most delicate white, but the Negro, who was seen imploring compassion in the middle of it, was in his own native colour.

Mr.Wedgwood made a liberal donation of these, when finished, among his friends.

I received from him no less than five hundred of them myself.

They, to whom they were sent, did not lay them up in their cabinets, but gave them away likewise.


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