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18069558London: Longman Hurst Rees and Orme 1806 Set of 3 Volumes; "As taken from a view of the Moral Education Discipline Peculiar Customs Religious Principles Political and Civil Oeconomy and Character of the Society of Friends"; Leather-Bound Hardbacks: half brown calf decorated in gilt on marbled boards edges marbled green laid end-papers; Bindings very used spines defective and lacking from volume 3 top board of volume 1 detached previous owner's name to each volume light foxing a g set. Longman Hurst Rees and Orme hardcover
17861028181786. First Edition. CLARKSON Thomas. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Particularly the African . With Additions. London Printed: Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Joseph Crukshank 1786. Octavo period-style full brown speckled calf gilt red morocco spine label raised bands; pp. i-v vi-xix xx-xxi 22-155. $4500.First American edition of Clarkson's extremely scarce first published work preceded by the same years first English edition his famous prize essay on the abolition of slavery igniting the campaign for one of the fundamental rights of man PMM 232.In 1770s England as ""rebellious Americans were severing ties with their former British motherland a strenuous battle occurred that spawned the noble civil- and human-rights fight that eventually ended Britain's participation in the African slave trade."" With this Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Thomas Clarkson ""became the official whistle-blower of the horrors of transatlantic slavery the driving force behind the abolition of African slavery and the slave trade"" Smith Thomas Clarkson 17. Clarkson's ""famous prize essay was the prelude to parliamentary action"" on the abolition of slavery. Clarkson together with William Wilberforce led the ""campaign carried on by word of mouth and by means of the printing press for one of the fundamental rights of man"" PMM 232. Clarkson had been completing his studies at Cambridge when he entered an essay competition and came across an ""advertisement for Benezet's Historical Account of Guinea. He was profoundly struck by the title and 'hastened to London to buy it' . Overwhelmed by the horror and brutality of transatlantic slavery his goal of merely winning the prize for its own sake"" shifted to creating a work of wider impact. On winning the 1785 Cambridge prize Clarkson translated the essay his Latin dissertation into English for publication. He documents the long history of slavery the devastating Middle Passage and the inhumanity of slavery in the colonies. Clarkson is renowned as ""the man who spawned the British Abolitionist Movement and the first Briton to devote his entire adult life to ending African slavery the moral conscience of American slavery proponents well into the 19th century"" Smith 9-30 43. ""He never ceased to work for anti-slavery lending his pen and his prestige particularly to the cause of abolition in the United States"" DNB. Leaf of publisher's advertisement at rear. Evans 19561. Sabin 13484. ESTC W32021. See Goldsmiths' 13279; Kress B1026. Early gift inscription to title page. Institutional inkstamp to title page. Text generally fresh with only light occasional edge-wear. A scarce near-fine copy beautifully bound. hardcover
1373213Londres: Imprimé par G. Schulze, 1821 in-8, [1]-vi-70 pages. Cartonnage moderne. Edition originale française. Le plan du navire négrier manque. The plate is lacking.
1374687Paris: Adrien Egron, 1814 in-8, viii-32 pages, sous couverture muette d'attente, premier plat de couverture tachée, rousseurs, petites déchirures marginales et une pâle mouillure angulaire affectent l'ensemble des feuillets. Exemplaire bien complet des 2 plans dépliant d'un bateau négrier dont la diffusion en France et en Angleterre provoqua un bouleversement de l'opinion publique en faveur de l'abolition de l'esclavage. EDITION ORIGINALE TRES RARE.