(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) HILLIER RICHARD Vindication of the A

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) HILLIER, RICHARD. Vindication of the Address to the People of Great Britain, on the Use of West India Produce, with Some Observations and Facts Relative to the Situation of Slaves, in Reply to a Female Apologist for Slavery. 23 pages. 12mo, later cloth-backed marbled paper-covered boards. London, 1791

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Hillier was a former sailor and had witnessed the slave trade on the sea as well on the plantations in the West Indies. This pamphlet was in part an exhortation against the purchase and use of West Indian goods, in particular sugar. Abolitionists felt that a ban on West-Indian products would hurt the planters economically. William Wilberforce presented his "Abstract of the Evidence" to Parliament---with the notorious slave-ship diagram the same year that this pamphlet appeared. Ragatz, page 513; not in Sabin, Schomburg or or Blockson.