A crowd gathered in Exeter Hall, London, to hear speakers on the abolition of the slave trade. Coloured engraving by J. Harris, 1840, after S. Blunt.

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Blunt, S,, active 1840.

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A crowd gathered in Exeter Hall, London, to hear speakers on the abolition of the slave trade. Coloured engraving by J. Harris, 1840, after S. Blunt.