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Excerpt from Lectures on Slavery
It gives a very interesting account of the progress of this controversy in parliament, and of the efforts made by distinguished philanthropists and statesmen, in that body, to produce an amelioration of the existing system, and, finally, its utter extinction. Although a part of the Lec tures necessarily relate particularly to slavery as it ex isted in the British west-indies, and under the influence of British laws; yet, the main body of it discusses such topics as relate to slavery in general, and applies as well to slavery in this country as in any other part of the world. All the important and dificult questions, which are involved in its consideration, are discussed at length, and with a power of reasoning, and a glow of feeling, calculated alike to convince the understanding, and strongly arouse the sensibility. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
