[Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman by Austin Steward]@TWC D-Link bookTwenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman CHAPTER XXXVII 26/37
On the first day of August next, will be the proudest day that ever Britain knew; for from that time henceforth, there will not remain a single slave throughout His Majesty's dominions. The friends of the cause are now turning their attention to Slavery in the United States, and are about to form a society for the abolition of Slavery throughout the world.
They all think highly of our Settlement, and will give it their cordial support. The leading abolitionists have given me letters of recommendation throughout the Kingdom, and have appointed one of their most effective men to travel with me,--his name is John Scoble, a very ready, intelligent, earnest, and an eloquent speaker.
I think I can do more now in one month, than I could in three before the question was settled in regard to their own slaves. You will at once see that although the people concluded my object to be an important one, yet, they generally thought that they ought to lend all their aid in removing the stain from their own land first This stain is now effectually effaced, and my meetings are exceedingly crowded.
I addressed an audience at Norwich of from three to four thousand persons, week before last, when about five hundred dollars was collected.
So you see I am getting on.
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