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God Almighty has set before me two great objects: the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners...

— William Wilberforce C. MacFarlane & T. Thomson (1792)

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Source: C. MacFarlane & T. Thomson. (1792), The comprehensive history of England, from the earliest period to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt, page 752.
Work: C. MacFarlane & T. Thomson, 1792
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