![So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences be what they would: I from this time determined that I would never rest until I had effected its abolition.](/assets/img/quote-photos/so-enormous-so-dreadful-so-irremediable-did-the-slave-trades-wickedness-appe.jpg)
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