Excerpt from Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Vol. 1 of 2: Abridged From Clarkson; Together With a Brief View of the Present State of the Slave-Trade and of SlaveryThe great principles of justice and benevolence which are developed in it, and illustrated and sup ported by an array of facts that touch the deep sensibilities of the soul, are of universal application. Furthermore, it is highly useful to contemplate the spirit and movements of those individuals who have conceived, undertaken, and prosecuted to a success ful accomplishment, measures of difficult and hazar dous benevolence.An abridgement has been attempted, because it was seen that it might be made without any serious injury to the work. The thread of the narrative is preserved unbroken. And all the main and interesting facts are embraced. Whilst this is done the price of the book is considerably reduced so that it can be much more extensively circulated than if published entire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament, Vol. 1 of 2: Abridged From Clarkson; Together With a Brief View of the Present State of the Slave-Trade and of Slavery (Classic Reprint

Thomas Clarkson

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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 t

Excerpt from 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 But though this meafure appeared, as has been oh ferved before, to be attended with confiderable lofs to the benevolent individuals who adopted it, yet, as virtue feldom fails of obtaining its reward, it became ultimate ly beneficial. Many of the fiaves, who were thus uh conditionally freed, returned without any folicitation to their former mallers, to ferve them, at fiated wages, as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to be better done than before. It was found alfo, that a greater quantity was done in the fame time. Hence lefs than the former number of labourers'was fuﬂicient. From thefe, and a variety of other circumftances, it ap peared, that their plantations were confiderably more profitable, when worked by free men, than when wo'rk cd, as before, by ﬂaves; and that they derived there fore, contrary to their expe&ations, a confiderable ad vantage from theirbenevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

History of the Rise, Prog: The African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (1808)

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Excerpt from 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 But though this meafure appeared, as has been oh ferved before, to be attended with confiderable lofs to the benevolent individuals who adopted it, yet, as virtue feldom fails of obtaining its reward, it became ultimate ly beneficial. Many of the aves, who were thus uh conditionally freed, returned without any folicitation to their former mafiers, to ferve them, at fiated wages, as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to be better done than before. It was found alfo, that a greater quantity was done in the fame time. Hence lefs than the former number of labourers'was fufficient. From thefe, and a variety of other circum ances, it ap peared, that their plantations were confiderably more profitable, when worked by free men, than when wo'rk ed, as before, by aves; and that they derived there fore, contrary to their expeetations, a confiderable ad vantage from their benevolence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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When abolitionists Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano published their essays on slavery in the late eighteenth century, they became key participants in one of the most important human rights campaigns in history. British abolitionism sought to expose the realities of transatlantic slavery in addition to asking politicians to help dehumanized Africans in the New World, and this edition brings together two major essays of the 1780s that were influential in the spread of the early abolitionist movement: Clarkson’s An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species and Cugoano’s Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species. A critical introduction and extensive historical appendices on British and American slavery and abolitionism, featuring contemporary arguments for and against slavery, are also included.

Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (Broadview Editions)

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