American slave-holders were urging the abolition of the traffic while London merchants were using every effort to continue it, and while Bristol, the very headquarters of the trade, was represented in Parliament by Edmund Burke.
Blaine contrasts the actions of American slaveholders advocating for abolition with the resistance from London merchants.
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