SLAVERY - CAMPBELL, John.

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Candid and impartial Considerations on the Nature of the Sugar Trade; the comparative importance of the British and French islands in the West-Indies: with the value and consequence of St. Lucia and Granada, truly stated. Illustrated with copper plates. First edition of the first-named, fourth of the second which was first published in Antigua, 1750 under the pseudonym of "An Old Planter". John Campbell (1708-1775), was a highly successful historian and miscellaneous author, Johnson thought well of him and praised the usefulness of his knowledge, also describing him as "the richest author that ever grazed the common of literature" (ODNB). The present work was commissioned by Lord Bute to rebut criticism of the Treaty of Paris by demonstrating "the value of colonial holdings in general and of sugar islands in particular" (Ragatz). That is was felt to have done its job is perhaps confirmed by Campbell's appointment in 1765 as king's agent to Georgia. Considered by Ragatz to be a "classic of in the field of colonial and Caribbean literature, embodying as it does one of the clearest statements of eighteenth-century philosophy regarding the relations that should exist between the metropole and its outlying possessions". This copy has additional material bound in: Bew's map of St Christopher's, a 2-page manuscript index, and bound at the rear a copy of Martin's practical essay on plantation management. Samuel Martin (1694/5-1776) had been born on Antigua, but spent some considerabl

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