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"All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consis..." — George Grey

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.
George Grey
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