id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt hvd.32044010282382 May, Samuel J. Emancipation in the British West Indies, August 1, 1834. 1845 .txt text/plain 7582 384 73 —who then stood up before the world disenthralled, emancipated—their rights as men recognized, guarantied, secured to them, by the government of the British Empire. abroad—the event we this day celebrate reveals the cheering fact, that there are true hearted, noble minded philanthropists among her people; and that by the power of truth, cause of the slave, God has been witness—to these, (however now despised) will the praise be due, for that deliverance, which is to come to the oppressed, down trodden We rejoice this day in the act of West India Emancipation, not because it gives us a formula, by which the great We rejoice in anticipation of the effect, which the abolition of slavery in the West Indies must produce upon our But it may not be denied, that much was gained to the cause of humanity, when the British Parliament, and the American Congress were brought to denounce the Slave Trade as piracy. ./cache/hvd.32044010282382.pdf ./txt/hvd.32044010282382.txt