The Sunday Telegraph carried a report of a new Dickens letter, found and published by Leon Litvack
The Sunday Telegraph of 26 June carried a report of a new Dickens letter, found and published by Leon Litvack, Principal Editor of the Dickens Letters Project, that enhances what we know about the author’s abhorrence of the slave trade.
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Dickens wrote: “You cannot too strongly represent to yourself the horror with which I contemplate that atrocity the Slave Trade, — although I have (I must confess to you) had my doubts of the efficiency of the African Blockade. Of the truth and devotion of those engaged in it, I have never had a grain of distrust.”
Leon will speak about this find on 8 July, at a conference in London.
Sunday Telegraph online 26 June 2022