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Slave Quotes by William Wilberforce
- God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).
- So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences…
- When blessed with wealth, let them withdraw from the competition of vanity and be modest, retiring from ostentation, and not be the slaves of fashion.
- What should we suppose must naturally be the consequence of our carrying on a slave trade with Africa? With a country, vast in its extent,…
- God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners.
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