Track 2. The Intrepid Spirit

Readers: John Graham Davies and George Sephton
Music: Stan Ambrose
Length: 6.37 mins

Branding a slave with a hot iron

Rushton believed as Cugoano (a former African slave) that “every man in Great-Britain was responsible in some degree for the slavery and oppression of Africans, unless he speedily riseth up in abhorrence of it in his own judgement, and, to avert evil, declare himself against it.”

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