(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) ANON Some Observations on the Assien

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ANON. Some Observations on the Assiento Trade, as it Hath Been Exercised by the South Sea Company, Proving the Damage Which will Accrue to the British Plantations in America. 38 pages. Small 8vo, later calf-backed cloth-covered boards; tips rubbed; joints started. London: Whitridge, 1728

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A pamphlet criticizing the crown for renewing the arrangement with the Spanish government called the "Assiento"-- quite literally, the "Agreement." That agreement, first signed in 1713, gave the British, and more specifically the investors in the South Sea Company the exclusive rights to the African Slave Trade. a scarce pamphlet.