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Abolition Speech by William Wilberforce

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“Abolition Speech”by William WilberforceMay 12, 1789, at The House of Commons, LondonWhen I consider the magnitude of the subject which I am to bring before the House, a subject in which the interests, not of this country nor of Europe alone, but of the whole world and of posterity are involved, and when I think

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