Publisher's Synopsis
A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade is a poem written by Helen Maria Williams and published in 1788. The poem is a powerful denunciation of the slave trade and a call to end the practice. Williams was a prominent abolitionist and her poem was widely read and influential. The poem is an important historical document that sheds light on the history of slavery and the movement to abolish it.
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