BRITS AT THEIR BEST: Freedom – THE FELLOWSHIP: ABOLISHING SLAVERY Part Four British History Copyright 2007 David Abbott and Catherine Glass

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Abolishing Slavery

African mother, father, son and daughter smiling

The fellowship hoped that abolishing the trade in slaves would
end slavery itself and allow Africans to live freely and happily.
Abolition was also intended to end the degradation of the sailors, merchants, and planters involved in slavery.

The Fellowship
Creating a New World

Part One
Horror and Love

12 gifts the London Eye

The file on the abolition of slavery has been rewritten. It's terrific just because the men and women who helped to abolish slavery were an amazing group of friends. The file has become one part of the ebook called 12 Gifts from Great Britain. You can read the ebook by paying a mere 75 pence (pound sterling) at Kindle UK or .99 cents at Kindle USA.

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Abolishing Slavery
THE FELLOWSHIP, Part 5
At Sea

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Abolishing Slavery
THE FELLOWSHIP

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Abolishing Slavery 1
Horror and Love

Abolishing Slavery 2
Sublime Allies

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Abolishing Slavery 3
Powerful Methods

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Abolishing Slavery 4
Creating a new world

Royal Navy ship pursuing a slave trader

Abolishing Slavery 5
At Sea

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Abolishing Slavery 6
Ending Slavery at Last

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LOVING FREEDOM

THE FREEDOM NETWORK

Excellent on Clarkson and the Friends, unaware of the Middletons, underestimating Wilberforce, Hochschild does not understand the source of the abolitionists' determination to end the slave trade, but his book is gripping.

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Why hast thou cast our lot
In the same age and place,
And why together brought
To see each other’s face:
To join in loving sympathy,
And mix our friendly souls in thee?
Didst thou not make us one,
That we might one remain,
Together travel on,
And bear each other’s pain;
Till all thy utmost goodness prove,
And rise renewed in perfect love?
Charles Wesley

The National Portrait Gallery's online exhibition of Portraits, People & Abolition is here.