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Letter to Rev. Henry Foster Burder, December 4, 1808. Handwritten letter, sent from Bury, signed by British anti-slavery campaigner Thomas Clarkson. Burder was a non-conformist minister and one of the founders of the Religious Tract Society and London Missionary Society. After the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807, Clarkson redirected his energies into ensuring the effective enforcement of the new law and the eventual abolition of slavery itself. 'With respect to the Effect of the Abolition your instance is of great importance, as it disproves all the evidence brought forward by those interested, "that they, who were made slaves in Africa, would be murdered, if no Purchasers were to be found for them", and confirms our own testimony, which was, "that all such slaves would, if there were none to purchase them, be employed upon the lands of those, who had them to sell"'.