G. M. Trevelyan
An historian. Wrote British History in the Nineteenth Century. Describing the impact of the passage of the Emancipation Act in Britain, he wrote: "On the last night of slavery, the Negroes in our West Indian islands went up on the hill-tops to watch the sun rise, bringing them freedom as its first rays struck the waters. But far away in the forests of Central Africa, in the heart of darkness yet unexplored, none understood or regarded the day. Yet it was the dark continent which was most deeply affected of all. Before its exploitation by Europe had well begun, the most powerful of the nations that were to control its destiny had decided that slavery should not be the relation of the black man to the white."
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