Horror and Love
Charles Middleton, James Ramsay, Granville Sharp,
and Margaret, Lady Middleton
Introduction
We are inundated by reports from all over the world, and find it hard to remember the last atrocity while facing the latest. In the world of the 18th century, word on slavery was slow to arrive, slower to be heard. The evil of slavery was growing, but only whispers reached the shires, which were preoccupied with their own problems.
Those who learned about slavery and recognized it as an evil were few in number. These few formed a fellowship to abolish the slave trade.
They were brought together in ways that seem mysterious and inexplicable. Each person brought to the fellowship something only he or she could bring, and without which the whole exhausting, dangerous effort that came close to killing several of them might have failed.
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