It is not that my plan does not lead to the extinction of the slave trade, but it is through a very slow progress, the chief effect of which is to be operated in our own plantations, by rendering, in a length of time, all foreign supply unnecessary.
Burke clarifies that his plan aims to gradually end the slave trade through domestic reforms over time.
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