Abolitionism in America

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James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. London: Printed for R. Bowyer by T. Bensley, 1809.
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Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
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Published after Great Britain enacted the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, this volume of poetry does not simply celebrate the end of the Slave Trade: it demands the end of West Indian slavery altogether.

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