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Snapshot 1807… William Cowper and the Slave Trade…
October 22, 2020 by GuyHeilenman
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We recently discovered a Gazette Of The United States, For The Country (Philadelphia), dated May 25, 1807 which had a timely reprinting of William Cowper’s poem regarding the abolition of the Slave Trade – just a few weeks after the enactment of the Slave Trade Act of 1807 (United Kingdom). It would still be another quarter-century before slavery within the Britain Empire would be abolished.
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Tagged: 1807, abolition, poetry, slave trade, slavery
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