A letter to Philo Africanus, upon slavery: in answer to his of the 22d of November, in the General Evening Post, together with the opinions of Sir John Strange, and other eminent lawyers upon this subject; with the sentence of Lord Mansfield, in the case of Somerset and Knowles, 1772, with His Lordship's explanation of that opinion in 1786.

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