Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 95

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RARE IN ITS ORIGINAL STATE (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [WILBERFORCE, WILLIAM.] A Very New Pamphlet Indeed! Being the Truth: Addressed to the People at Large. Containing Some Strictures on the English Jacobins, and The Evidence of Lord M'Cartney and Others before the House of Lords, Respecting the Slave Trade. Appearing as an "extra," added at the end of a copy of The Critical Review for September, 1792. 15 pages, sewn in after the last signature of this pamphlet. 8vo, original printed drab gray wrappers. An immaculate copy. London, 1792
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first edition. A caustic reply to William Wilberforce and others'' presentation of the evidence of the extreme cruelty of the slave trade before the House of Lords in 1791. From the latter, a pamphlet with the notorious slave ship diagram titled "An Abstract of the Evidence" was published in the same year. The present diatribe against the abolitionists and "their old Jewry Society" sought to give evidence showing that slavery was not so bad after all. The noted political pamphleteer, Thomas Paine wrote a reply to this pamphlet titled "Old Truths . . . a Reply to a Very New Pamphlet Indeed" in 1792. William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarkson and others in both houses of Parliament fought tirelessly for the abolition of the slave trade. The slave trade was formally abolished in 1808, though slavers continued to take captive Africans well into the mid-19th century. A very unusual manner of presenting a political argument. The writer was either a member of the editorial staff of the Critical Review, or would have had to to pay to insert this pamphlet in the magazine. scarce, and especially so in this format. Ragatz, page 469; Afro-Americana, 10765; not in the Blockson collection; Schomburg copy on microfiche.