(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) CLARKSON THOMAS History of the Rise

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WITH THE SLAVE SHIP DIAGRAM (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CLARKSON, THOMAS. History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament. Large folding map of the coast of Africa and two folding plates including the diagram of the hold of a slave ship; the map with some early damp-stain; the first plate with a short, closed tear. Two volumes, crown 8vo, contemporary quarter calf with gilt-pictorial tools in four of five panels; very slightly rubbed. London, 1808

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first edition of clarkson's definitive history of the efforts of the British abolitionists on behalf of Africa and the African. Clarkson, together with William Wilberforce and others fought long and hard to bring about the end of the slave trade. But it took nearly fifteen more years to bring about emancipation for the tens of thousands of slaves in Britain's colonies.