[The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I by Thomas Clarkson]@TWC D-Link bookThe History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I
CHAPTER X
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Of this he approved.
The persons present at the first meeting were Mr.Wilberforce, the Honourable John Villiers, Mr.
Powys, Sir Charles Middleton, Sir Richard Hill, Mr.Granville Sharp, Mr.
Ramsay, Dr.Gregory, (who had written on the subject, as before mentioned,) and myself.
At this meeting I read a paper, giving an account of the light I had collected in the course of my inquiries, with observations as well on the impolicy as on the wickedness of the trade.
Many questions arose out of the reading of this little Essay.
Many answers followed.
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