HISTORY

OF THE

RISE, PROGRESS, AND ACCOMPLISHMENT

OF THE

ABOLITION

OF

THE SLAVE TRADE.

CHAPTER I.

No subject more pleasing than that of the removal of evils-Evils have existed almost from the beginning of the world-but there is a power in our nature to counteract them-this power increased by Christianity-of the evils removed by Christianity one of the greatest is the Slavetrade-The joy we ought to feel on its abolition from a contemplation of the nature of it—and of the extent of it—and of the difficulty of subduing it-Usefulness also of the contemplation of this subject.

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SCARCELY know of any subject, the contemplation of which is more pleasing than that of the correction or of the removal of any of the acknowledged evils of life; for while we rejoice to think that the sufferings

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