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An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African / translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785, with additions.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--History.
- Slavery.
- History.
- Slave trade--Africa.
- Slave trade.
- Africa.
- Dissertations, Academic.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- xxxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 256 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : printed by J. Phillips and sold by T. Cadell and J. Phillips, 1786.
- Contents:
- Pt. I. The history of slavery
- Pt. II. The African commerce or slave-trade
- Pt. III. The slavery of the Africans in the European colonies.
- Notes:
- Errata: p. [xxxii].
- Preface signed: Thomas Clarkson.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T131468
- Kress Lib. B.1026
- Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 2382
- OCLC:
- 6882715
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