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Quotes from The Abolition of the Slave Trade — Elizabeth Benger

1775–1827 England

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Devoted victim of the crimes accurst,
By hatred cherish’d, and by av’rice nurs'd;
Crimes that with Europe’s sordid sons began,
The rude barbarian’s gift from polished man.

The Abolition of the Slave Trade (1810)

All human archives in this truth accord,
That feeble man is Ruin’s mighty lord;
States rise and fall as ages roll away,
But vice survives, the passions ne’er decay;
New tyrants start, where conquest once has been,
The drama constant, tho’ transposed the scene.

The Abolition of the Slave Trade (1810)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Benger (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.