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William Adam HultonBiblio.com

Documents Relating to the Priory of Penwortham and Other Possessions in Lancashire of the Abbey of Evesham Classic Reprint

William Adam; Thomas Fowell BuxtonBiblio.com

Law and Custom of Slavery in British India

18401801020013Boston: Weeks Jordan & Co 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Acceptable. Signed. First Edition. Bound in publisher's textured cloth. Internally foxing staining. Inscribed to R. Hildreth from "The Author." in pencil. Early ink signature on front flyleaf. AI 40-26. Adam was a member of the English Baptist Missionary Society serving in northern India 1817-1821. Adam stayed in India until 1838 working to establish the Calcutta Unitarian Society. He became Professor of Oriental Linguistics at Harvard University and authored a series of letters to warn against the prevailing slavery in the British colonies to Thomas Fowell Buxton Esq. a prominent British member of parliament. Buxton was a well-known abolitionist founder of the anti-slavery society associated with the Gurneys the Religious Society of Friends Quakers and other social reform movements of the day. Adam attended the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London 1840 with William Lloyd Garrison Charles Lenox Remond and Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. <br> Contents: I: Introduction Hindu Law of Slavery Muhammadan Law of Slavery British Law of Slavery; II: Examination of the Legality of Hindu and Muhammadan Slavery under the British Government in India; III: Administration of Hindu and Muhammadan Slave Law under the British Government in India; IV: Ameliorations of the Law and Practice of Slavery under the British Government in India; V: Number of Slaves in British India; VI: The Origin and Sources of Slavery in British India; VII: Occupations and Treatment of Agrestic Slaves Domestic Slaves in British India; VIII: Unsuccessful attempts to ameliorate the Law and Practice of Slavery in British India Abolition of Slavery; Appendix: Mr HT Colebrooke's Opinions on slavery in India; Dr Francis Buchanan on Slavery in the South of India; Mr D Liston on Slavery in Gorakhpur; Case of the Ship Adramytte; Abolition of Slavery in Ceylon Weeks, Jordan & Co hardcover

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