An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African

by Thomas Clarkson

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

175pp. 12mo. Contemporary calf, small chip at head of spine, front joint just starting but cords holding. Coleman 3032; AII Kentucky 584; Shaw & Shoemaker 37261. Item #353779 A rare Kentucky printing of Clarkson's important argument against the slave trade, following the first of 1786 and several American printings which followed. Indeed, this edition is noted as the first to be published in a slave state. Clarkson was a prolific

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