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WILBERFORCE
, William
Lettre signée au général Lafayette
Highwood Hill, Middlesex, 28 mars 1831
ABOLITION DE L’ESCLAVAGE. WILBERFORCE ENVOIE SON FILS RENDRE VISITE À
LAFAYETTE, L’UN DES GRANDS ABOLITIONNISTES EUROPÉENS
2 pages 1/4 in-8, à l’encre brune
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My oldest son (...) will halt a few days in Paris (...) He well knows the deep interest
you have taken in the cause of the long oppressed and cruelly treated Africans ; and
I hope that from your instruction he will be able to inform me that some effect is
following from that early promise of mercy which was made to those poor Outcasts”
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