East and West India Sugar: or, a Refutation of the Claims of the West India Colonists to a Protecting Duty on West India Sugar.

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This work was published in the same year that Macaulay and T. F. Buxton formed the Anti-Slavery Society. It is considered one “ of the best presentations of the East Indian case in the equalization controversy . The West Indian claims and allegations are considered one by one ” (Ragatz). This copy has excellent provenance, formerly belonging to Holland House which was essentially the headquarters for nineteenth-century whigs. Ragatz, p.309; Sabin, 42951.

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