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By the end of the eighteenth century, criticism of the slave trade was growing throughout Europe and North America and the question of abolition became a central theme in public and intellectual debate (Black, 2002, p.53). Denunciations of the trade appeared in the literature of many Enlightenment philosophers and scholars (Black, 1999, p.406). In 1775, the English intellectual Thomas Paine (1737-1809) published his article African Slavery in America in The Pennsylvania Magazine in which he launches a polemic against the institution of slavery and advocates its abolishment and the emancipa...