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Slave Trade and eighteenth-century British and European history COLLECTION OF 10 WORKS OR BROADSIDES IN ONE VOLUME: [Wilberforce, William, compiler.] An Abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790, and 1791; on the part of the petitioners for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade. James Phillips 1791, presentation inscription on title page to Sir William Forbes, TWO FOLDING ENGRAVED PLATES (with illustration and description of a slave ship etc), FOLDING MAP OF AFRICA AT REAR [Sabin 81745]--At a committee of the Society, instituted in 1787, for the purpose of effecting the abolition of the slave trade. [1789], 4pp. dated at head of the drop-head title: London, 28th July, 1789, 3 COPIES ONLY LISTED BY ESTC, folded--Translation of a letter written by the Society of the friends of the negroes, in France, to the different baillages, or districts, entitled to send delegates to the States-General.[1789], 4pp., ONE COPY ONLY LISTED BY ESTC (Durham), folded--At a Committee of the Society...for...the Abolition of the Slave Trade. [1788], broadside, FOUR COPIES ONLY LISTED BY ESTC, folded--The Debate on a Motion for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade...April 18 and 19, 1791. W. Woodfall, 1791, presentation copy to Sir William Forbes [Sabin 19094]--A Short Address to the People of Scotland on the subject of the Slave Trade... Edinburgh: J. Robertson 1792 [Kress 15372; Sabin 80593]--The Speech of Mr. Beaufoy...18th June, 1788...for regulating the conveyance of Negroes from Africa to the West-Indies... for J. Phillips 1789 [Sabin 4166]--At a Committee of the Society...for...the Abolition of the Slave Trade. [1791], broadside, ONE COPY ONLY LISTED BY ESTC; and two other small pamphlets; 12mo and 8vo, contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards (spine numbered 253), some occasional spotting or slight staining, binding slightly worn (1)