(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) THOMPSON ARCHIBALD Interesting Narra

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) THOMPSON, ARCHIBALD. Interesting Narrative of the Shipwreck and Captivity of Dr. Archibald Thompson, who served as Surgeon on board the Sympathy, 1777. . . . His state of slavery in Algiers and the Dreadful punishment of Impalement, inflicted upon an unfortunate Negro, who ran away from his Master. Large engraved folding frontispiece. 12mo, 28 pages, disbound; some toning. London: Tegg, 1808

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A clearly anti-slavery pamphlet, dressed up in the form of an account of a shipwreck and subsequent captivity. The frontispiece is harsh even by the lurid chapbook standards of the day.