Excerpt from The Slavery of the British West India Colonies Delineated, Vol. 1: As It Exists Both in Law and Practice, and Compared With the Slavery of Other Countries, Ancient and Modern

The delay will be thought to demand an apology only by the friends of the great public cause which I wish to serve, and from them I may reasonably hope not only candour, but indulgence. I will therefore content myself with assuring them that I have not been idle, but have prosecuted this under taking with all the assiduity that my other duties in life 'wbuld fipermit, though the delay has certainly much exceeded my own previous estimate.

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