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Month: <span>December 1788</span>

Simon Taylor to Chaloner Arcedeckne, 15 December 1788

By the end of 1788, the assembly had produced a report, to be publicised in Britain, in response to the calls for an end to the slave trade and criticisms of slavery in the West Indies. Taylor hoped that this would be sufficient to put an end to the abolitionist …