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1 R. R. Madden, Address on Slavery in Cuba 1 (1840)

handle is hein.slavery/adslvc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ADDRESS ON SLAVERY IN CUBA, PRESENTED TO TIE GENERAL ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTIONN, BY R. R, MADDEN, ESQ., M. D. Sin,-I am so fully aware that my habits do not qualify me for the task that has been assigned me, and my state of health renders me so unequal to it, that nothing but a strong sense of the im- portance of the question I have been requested to afford some information on, could surmount the reluctance I feel at presenting myself before a public meeting, and especially before such an assembly as this, where, if I felt a momentary satisfaction in being recognized as one who at least was known to be willing to serve this cause-who had walked after the hearse of slavery in Jamaica -assisted likewise in this country at the obsequies of the appren- ticeship system, and employed a practised eye for some years past in taking the measure of the grave of slavery in Cuba itself;-if in anything I have encountered of toil or peril in this cause, in whose service I have spent the last seven years, I may say not in the peaceful closets of philanthropy, but in the field of slavery itself', as a mercenary, if you will, but as a soldier at all events, if any such feeling of pride was excited, the foolishness of it would be surely rebuked by the presence and the bearing of those men who have so long toiled in the cause, but most especially of those men from America, who have come as one great cloud of witnesses across the Atlantic, and made you acquainted, not only with the wrongs of their black brethren, but likewise personally so with the heroic courage, and untiring energies which they have devoted to this question.

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