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THE

WEST INDIES.

A POEM, IN FOUR PARTS.

WRITTEN IN HONOUR OF THE ABOLITION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE BY THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE, IN 1807.

"Receive him for ever; not now as a servant, but above a servant,—a brother beloved."

St Paul's Epist. to Philemon, v. 15, 16.

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