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Bristol Mercury (1)

Speaker or Author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper:Bristol Mercury
Title: American Slavery
Date Published: 1850-04-13
Notes: Anecdotal speech given before a meeting on American slavery held in Bristol, England. The speaker recounted his own escape to freedom and stories of others who had done the same. He spoke of the horrors and injustices of slavery, and stressed the importance of the support of the British people in the abolition of slavery in the U.S.