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Scanned copy imperfect: weak or faded print; library stamp obscures four lines of text.

Opening paragraph reads as follows: "Sir Cecil Wray called the attention of the House to a matter in which he said their humanity was much interested, it being no other than an appeal to their feelings as men and as Christians, in behalf of a great number of their fellow creatures, the Negroes whom they kept in slavery."

Reproduction of the original from the Library of the Society of Friends. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

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Article excerpted from an unknown British newspaper or periodical (London?) with the approximate publication date of 1783?.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.

Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive

Enslaved persons > Great Britain > Early works to 1800.

Society of Friends > Early works to 1800.

Slavery and the church > Early works to 1800.

Antislavery movements > Great Britain > Early works to 1800.