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Black Georgian England

You're Dead to Me

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The Sierra Leon Plan

The sierra leon plan quickly turnd o dissolve. A man named joseph irwin, who was rather corrupt, took over and started skimming money from the budget. The scheme proved to be a tragic disaster. Within weeks, of the over 400 who finally set sail, only 60 remained alive. Five years later, equiano later wrote about his regrets, but this tragedy spurrting him on to keep speaking up about abolition.

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