(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) [THOMPSON GEORGE] The Abolitionist V

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INSCRIBED BY THOMPSON TO ANNE WESTON (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [THOMPSON, GEORGE.] The Abolitionist, Volume I, No 1, August, 1834. 47 pages. 8vo, original wrappers, quite toned and fragile, library numerals, contents otherwise clean; an entirely untrimmed copy. London, 1834

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the first issue of this periodical, inscribed to Anne Warren Weston, one of the noted Weston sisters of Boston, all abolitionists, and feminists. A fine association copy of this organ of the British and Foreign Abolitionist Society. George Thompson (1804-1878) was one of the leading voices of British Abolitionism of the generation that followed William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson. Thompson was a noted orator, and became a member of Parliament in 1847 where he fought tirelessly for the final extermination of slavery, which despite the bans on the African trade, and Emancipation in the West Indies persisted in the United States.