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 * WEST INDIES.

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A POEM, IN FOUR PARTS.

WRITTEN IN HONOUR OF THE ABOLITION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE BY THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE, IN 1807.

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"Receive him for ever; not now as a servant, but above a  servant, —a brother beloved."

St Paul's Epist. to Philemon, v. 15, 16.