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Excerpt from Speech of Rev. Henry Bleby: Missionary From Barbadoes, on the Results of Emancipation in the British W. I. Colonies, Delivered at the Celebration of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, Held at Island Grove, Abington, July 31st, 1858 Well, sir, Sharp determined to free himself and his fellow-slaves. I do not know whether he was himself deceived, or whether he knowingly deceived his fellow-conspirators, but he persuaded a large number of them to believe that the British govern ment had made them free, and that their owners were keeping them in slavery in opposition to the wishes of the authorities in England. It so happen ed, sir, that, just at that time, the planters themselv...
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