"One subject, and one subject only, beyond the limits of his private grief had still power to move him deeply—too deeply for his happiness and peace—and that was the terrible, ever-haunting subject of Slavery and the Slave Trade. By this time Mrs. Stowe's master work had taken by storm the attention of all the world. Knowing the effect it would have on their father, his children at first tried to keep it from him, but this, in the case of one not absolutely secluded from society, was of course impossible. He read it, and with what result is easy to conceive. It moved him not only with pity and horror, but filled him also with bitterness and wrath."
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Joseph Arnould, Memoir of Thomas, First Lord Denman formerly Lord Chief Justice of England, Vol. II (1878), p. 332
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Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman
Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman (23 July 1779 – 26 September 1854) was a British lawyer, judge and politician.
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