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Month: <span>September 1788</span>

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 23 September 1788

In September 1788, Taylor looked forward to the meeting of the Assembly, convened earlier in the year than usual to discuss the issues raised by British demands for the abolition of the slave trade. He also made some of his boldest statements about the prospect of abolitionism driving white West …