1840 WORLD ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. William Adam of Harvard Exposes ongoing Slavery in India. Exposition Means for Mental Improvement

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1840 WORLD ANTI-SLAVERY CONVENTION. William Adam of Harvard Exposes ongoing Slavery in India. Exposition Means for Mental ImprovementWilliam Adams 1840 paper, Slavery in India, presented at the General Anti Slavery Convention in London, remains a pivotal document in the history of the global abolitionist movement. While the American public was largely focused on domestic chattel slavery, Adama Scottish missionary and educator who lived in India and later settled in Cambridge, Massachusettsexposed the vast and often "invisible" scale of bondage under British colonial rule. A