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SLAVERY]. -- CLARKSON, Thomas (1760-1846). The History of the Rise and Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament . London: R. Taylor and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808.
SLAVERY]. -- CLARKSON, Thomas (1760-1846). The History of the Rise and Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament . London: R. Taylor and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808. 2 volumes, 8 o (227 x 138 mm). Publisher's slip advertising Clarkson's The Portraiture of Quakerism tipped to first title. Three plates, two folding (4-in. marginal tear just touching image on plate of the ship). ORIGINAL PUBLISHER'S PAPER-BACKED BOARDS, UNCUT AND MOSTLY UNOPENED, printed paper spine labels; cloth folding case. FIRST EDITION OF CLARKSON'S INVALUABLE HISTORY: the best source on the history of the movement that led to the abolition of slavery in the British dominions in 1807. As a student at Oxford, Clarkson had made this his primary focus, carefully researching books on the abuses of the slave trade. "Before he entered on the crusade slaveholding was considered, except by a chosen few, as a necessary part of social economy; it was due largely to Clarkson's exertions that long before his death it had come to be regarded as a crime" ( DNB ). His famous cross section and plan of a slave ship depicted on one of the plates remains one of the most powerful social action prints ever conceived. Sabin 13486. A SUPERB COPY IN ENTIRELY ORIGINAL CONDITION. (2)