in the Lords; sent from thence to the Commons; amended, and
passed there, and sent back to the Lords; receives the royal
assent.--Reflections on this great event


Map

Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship







PREFATORY REMARKS

TO

THE PRESENT EDITION.

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The invaluable services rendered by Thomas Clarkson to the great
question of the Slave Trade in all its branches, have been universally
acknowledged both at home and abroad, and have gained him a high place
among the greatest benefactors of mankind. The History of the Abolition
which this volume contains, affords some means of appreciating the
extent of his sacrifices and his labours in this cause. But after these,
with the unwearied exertions of William Wilberforce, had conducted its