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Catalogue reference: CO 101/45/30
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Acknowledges receipt of Circular of 9 March, by which he learnt that little or no doubt existed that the Bill before Parliament for the Abolition of the Slave Trade would pass into a Law; reports he will represent the effects of the bill to the best of his abilities and states he is 'really of Opinion that [I] shall not encounter much Opposition - in the Old settled Colonies, it does not appear to [me], that there is any great animosity against the measure' but reports opposition to emancipation and that 'the English Prints have reported expressions used, which pointed to this measure - the bare mentioning of it, is sufficient to electrify every Proprietor in these Colonies; and were it to be seriously debated, I am confident, that one only Sentiment would exist in the Breast of every West India Planter, and that would be despair'.
Frederick Maitland, Grenada, Folios 111 - 112.
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