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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
WITH THE SLAVE-SHIP DIAGRAM CLARKSON, THOMAS. The Cries of Africa, to the Inhabitants of Europe; or a Survey of that Bloody Commerce called Slave-Trade. 50 pages. Large folding, engraved plate of the hold of a slave-ship. 8vo, original printed wrappers, stitching loose, outer leaves a bit dusty. London: Harvey and Darton, [1822]
first edition. Essentially a digest of the larger "Abstract of the Evidence," (1791) presented to Parliament by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson, in an attempt to shock that body into action against the slave-trade. Clarkson had published the engraved plate, in his History of the Rise, Progress and Abolition of the Slave-Trade in 1808, following the ban on taking any more slaves out of Africa. This pamphlet was intended to arouse public outrage against the trade. It was successful in that public reaction to the slave-trade brought boycotts of West India sugar and rum.
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