(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) A Very New Pamphlet Indeed being the

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) A Very New Pamphlet Indeed, being the Truth Addressed to the People at Large . . . Respecting the Slave Trade. 15 pages. 12mo, later cloth-backed boards, minor soiling; minimal wear and foxing to contents. London, 1792

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An anonymous hostile reply to William Wilberforce and other British abolitionists, dismissing their evidence of the extreme cruelty of the slave trade before the House of Lords in 1791. It twice mocks abolitionists as "the Old Jewry Society" (pages 4 and 8), and accuses them of using their cause to install a republican government in England. This pro-slavery pamphlet was circulated enough to merit a response from the famous radical Thomas Paine. Afro-Americana 10765; Ragatz, page 469; Sabin 99320.