England, earnestly and zealously occupied in rallying the physical, moral, and intellectual energies of the civilized world against the African slave-trade, had scarcely yet discovered that it was but an instrument, and in truth a mitigation, of the great, irremissible wrong of slavery.
Quincy critiques England's focus on the slave trade while overlooking the broader issue of slavery itself as a fundamental wrong.
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