Pages That Mention John Harfield Tredgold
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is impressed with the conviction, that such a systematic trade in man, must be attended with excessive cruelty and wrong to the objects of it, and involves in its prosecution a fearful extent of barbarity and hardness of heart on the part of the man Trader, and that effectual means ought to be forthwith taken in the United Stated of America, to remove this stain from the character of that nation.
On behalf of the Convention Thomas Clarkson President
A true Copy J. H. Tredgold Secretary