Download or read book Seven Years' Service on the Slave Coast of Western Africa, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Henry Huntley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Seven Years' Service on the Slave Coast of Western Africa, Vol. 1 of 2 There are few who do not remember the strenuous and laudable efforts which were made at first by a few men, solely guided by what they felt to be the dictates of piety and integrity, and whose perseverance in placing before the British mind the enormous iniquity of the slave trade, succeeded in inculcating a feeling of remorse, which they hoped would only terminate its existence with that of the revolting trade itself. This philanthropic school founded by perhaps not more than three men, Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Allen, by the force and truth of their humane representations, (so far as regarded the injustice of slavery in the abstract, ) not only drew around it a host of supporters equally zealous in tracing the several avenues which led to the attainment of the freedom of the enslaved African, and ready to follow the banner elevated in that cause, but by its growth and earnest appeals it also attracted the attention of the statesman, whether he regarded it as a sound measure of policy, a great and moral justice, or whether he saw in its ready adoption the means of enhancing his own power and of gratifying his own ambition by using it for the mere purposes of rendering himself prominent as an advocate of so popular a subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.