The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (Paperback)


General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1816 Original Publisher: Printed by R. Porter Subjects: Slave trade Antislavery movements Slave-trade Slavery Great Britain History / Africa / General History / United States / General History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Social Science / Slavery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: It was now neeessary, that I should write to the eommittee in London. I informed them of all my diseoveries. in the various branehes to whieh my attention had been direeted, and desired them in return to proeure me various oflieiiil doeuments for the port of London, whieh I then speeified. Having done this, J eonferred with Mr. Faleonbridge, relative to being witt me at Liverpool. I thought it right to make him no other offer than that his expenses should be paid. He aeeeded to my request on these disinterested terms; and I took my departure from Bristol, leaving him to follow me in a few days. Section in. My first introduetion at Liverpool, was to William Rath- bone, a member of the religious soeiety of the Quakers. He was the same person, who, before the formation of our eommittee, had proeured me eopies of several of the muster-rolls of the Slave vessels belonging to that port, so that, though we were not personally known, yet we were not strangers to eaeh other. Isaae Hadweft. a respeetable member of the same soeiety, was the person whom I saw next. As Mr. Roseoe had generously given the profits of " The Wrongs of Afriea," to our eommittee, I made no seruple of ealling upon him. His reeeption of me was very friendly, and he introdueed me afterwards to Dr. Currie, who had written the prefaee to that poem. There was also a fourth, upo...

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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1816 Original Publisher: Printed by R. Porter Subjects: Slave trade Antislavery movements Slave-trade Slavery Great Britain History / Africa / General History / United States / General History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877) Social Science / Slavery Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: It was now neeessary, that I should write to the eommittee in London. I informed them of all my diseoveries. in the various branehes to whieh my attention had been direeted, and desired them in return to proeure me various oflieiiil doeuments for the port of London, whieh I then speeified. Having done this, J eonferred with Mr. Faleonbridge, relative to being witt me at Liverpool. I thought it right to make him no other offer than that his expenses should be paid. He aeeeded to my request on these disinterested terms; and I took my departure from Bristol, leaving him to follow me in a few days. Section in. My first introduetion at Liverpool, was to William Rath- bone, a member of the religious soeiety of the Quakers. He was the same person, who, before the formation of our eommittee, had proeured me eopies of several of the muster-rolls of the Slave vessels belonging to that port, so that, though we were not personally known, yet we were not strangers to eaeh other. Isaae Hadweft. a respeetable member of the same soeiety, was the person whom I saw next. As Mr. Roseoe had generously given the profits of " The Wrongs of Afriea," to our eommittee, I made no seruple of ealling upon him. His reeeption of me was very friendly, and he introdueed me afterwards to Dr. Currie, who had written the prefaee to that poem. There was also a fourth, upo...

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General Books LLC

Country of origin

United States

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December 2009

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First published

December 2009

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Dimensions

229 x 152 x 11mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

190

ISBN-13

978-1-150-60837-7

Barcode

9781150608377

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1-150-60837-4



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