"For by aiming at the abolition of the slave-trade, they were laying the axe at the very root."

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GenocidesColonialismSlave trade
Original Language: English

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Thomas Clarkson, "The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament", (1836) p. 217