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Excerpt from A Letter to Wm. Wilberforce, Esq. M. P. On the Subject of Impressment: Calling on Him and the Philanthropists of This Country to Prove Those Feelings of Sensibility They Expressed in the Cause of Humanity on Negro Slavery, by Acting With the Same Ardour and Zeal in the Cause of British Seamen As things are often best understood by comparison, and as l have more than once contrasted the hardships to which our mercantile seamen are exposed in time of war, permit me, Sir, to state a few instances connected with negro slavery, which will not' only shew that the com parison is not improper, but that much misrepresentation has gone forth respecting the treatment of slaves in the West Indies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.