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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 IV
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He should propose a praedial rather than a personal service for the West Indies, and institutions, by which the slaves there should be instructed in religious duties.

He concluded by reading several resolutions, which he would leave to the future consideration of the House.
Mr.Pitt then rose.

He deprecated the resolutions altogether.

He denied also the inferences, which Mr.Dundas had drawn from the West-Indian documents relative to the Negro-population.

He had looked over his own calculations from the same documents again and again, and he would submit them, with all their data, if it should be necessary, to the House.
Mr.Wilberforce and Mr.Fox held the same language.


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