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Religion of Author:
"Anglican with Enthusiastic or Evangelical Tendencies"
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"The Speech of William Wilberforce, Esq., Representative for the County of York, on Wednesday the 13th of May, 1789, on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade"
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"Eighteenth Century"
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Date: May 13, 1789
"[T]he Slave Trade has enslaved their [Africans'] minds, blackened their character and sunk them so low in the scale of animal beings, that some think the very apes are of a higher class, and fancy the Ourang Outang has given them the go-by."
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