Minutes of the Evidence taken ... before the Committee of the Whole House to whom the BILL for providing certain Temporary Regulations respecting the Transportation of the Natives of Africa, in Britis

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Two important publications in the early years of the abolition movement. Before the Abolition Act was passed in 1807, a committee was formed in the House of commons to hear evidence respecting the slave trade. These hearings led to the putting forward of several bills to test the strength of feeling in the House of Com

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