An Abstract Of The Evidence Delivered Before A Select Committee Of The House Of Commons In The Years

by Slavery House Of Commons

$12,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

Printed at the Joint Expence of the Glasgow and Edinburgh Societies instituted for the Abolition of the Slave Trade: Edinburgh, 1791. Rare first Edinburgh edition, published same year as the London edition, of eye-witness testimony on the horrors of the British slave trade, containing a very early engraving of the famous large folding plate of slaves packed into the hold of the slave-ship Brookes. The famous engraving

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