(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) CLARKSON THOMAS The Cries of Africa

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AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY WITH AMPLE MARGINS (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CLARKSON, THOMAS. The Cries of Africa to the Inhabitants of Europe; or a Survey of that Bloody Commerce called the Slave-Trade. Large folding plate of the slave-ship Brooks. 50 pages. 8vo, original, string-bound text, beginning with the half-title, no wrappers present, possibly issued thus. London: Harvey and Darton, 1822

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Thomas Clarkson (1760-1846) was without doubt the father of the British abolitionist movement. Together with William Wilberforce, and others working in Parliament, the two were able to bring to the attention of the British public the horrific treatment that African were subjected to under the triangular slave trade, and particularly during the 'Middle Passage,' from Africa to the West Indies. It was calculated that upwards of one third of all those people packed into the holds of slave ships, perished en route. The engraving was first published in Plymouth, England as part of a four page pamphlet, and almost simultaneously as a broadside. It appeared in the United States in the 1789 edition of The American Museum [see lot. . . .] This image of the hold of a slaver, together with Josiah Wedgwoosd's kneeling slave, who asks 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother' are the most identifiable icons of the Abolitionist movement.