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A Preview of next Bulletin, Volume 8, Number 1,

* Commemorating abolition of the slave trade in 1807 by England and the United States

* Two seminar papers presented by James Tepfer and Maurice Bisheff at Institute of World Culture:

"The Religious and Political Philosophy of Thomas Paine" and "The Political Thought of Thomas Paine."

 

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