. The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British parliament . ld he be prevailed upon, even after thisresolution, to alter his conduct: for thoughhe continued to sign the papers, which werehanded to him by virtue of holding this of-fice, he never was once seated as the chair-man during the twenty years in which heattended at these meetings. I thought itnot improper to mention this trait in hischaracter. Conscious that he engagedin the cause of his fellow-creatures solelyupon the sense of his duty as a Christian,he seems to have
. The history of the rise, progress, and accomplishment of the abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British parliament . ld he be prevailed upon, even after thisresolution, to alter his conduct: for thoughhe continued to sign the papers, which werehanded to him by virtue of holding this of-fice, he never was once seated as the chair-man during the twenty years in which heattended at these meetings. I thought itnot improper to mention this trait in hischaracter. Conscious that he engagedin the cause of his fellow-creatures solelyupon the sense of his duty as a Christian,he seems to have supposed either that hehad done nothing extraordinary to merit vol. i. 2 g such 4J0 THE HISTORY OF THE such a distinction, or to have been fearfullest the acceptance of it should bring a stainupon the motive, on which alone he under-took it. On the second and sixteenth of Octobertwo sittings took place; at the latter of whicha sub-committee, which had been appointedfor the purpose, brought in a design for aseal. An African was seen, (as in thefigure *,) in chains in a supplicating pos-ture, kneeling with one knee upon the. ground, and with both his hands lifted upto Heaven, and round the seal was observedthe following motto, as if he was utteringthe words himself— Am I not a Man and?a Brother? The design having been ap-proved of, a seal was ordered to be engraved * The figure is rather larger than that in the seal. from ABOLITION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. 451 from it. I may mention here, that thisseal, simple as the design was, was made tocontribute largely, as will be shown in itsproper place, towards turning the attentionof our countrymen to the case of the injuredAfricans, and of procuring a warm interestin their favour. On the thirtieth of October several letterswere read ; one of these was from En-;Otand Claviere conjointly. In tnis they ac-knowledged the satisfaction they had re-ceived on beins; considered as associates inthe humane work of the abolition of theSlave-trade, an
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