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Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council appointed for the consideration of all matters relating to trade and foreign plantations : submitting to His Majesty's consideration the evidence and information they have collected in consequence of His Majesty's order in council dated the 11th of February 1788, concerning the present state of the trade to Africa, and particularly the trade in slaves; ...
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Proceedings. 1789-04-25
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
[London : For the House of Commons, 1789].
Description
6, [806] pages, [40] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 38.5 x 25.5 cm. (2⁰).
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Lapidus 4.20a EX
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Princeton copy 1
Special Collections - William H. Scheide Library
187.3
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Slave trade
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Early works to 1800
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Bookseller
Steele, Geoffrey
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Former owner
Thornton, Henry, 1760-1815
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Thornton, Percy M.
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Birkbeck College
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Notes
In 8 parts. Contents: Preface; I. 'View of the evidence that the committee has obtained of the present state of those parts of Africa from whence slaves have been exported, ..'; II. 'View of evidence concerning the manner of carrying slaves to the West Indies, ..'; III. 'Treatment of slaves in the West Indies, ..'; IV. 'The several accounts which have been called for, in order to shew the extent of the trade in all its branches, and the number of white people and slaves in each of the islands of the West Indies, ..'; V. 'The advantages which the French West India islands are supposed, at present, to enjoy over the British islands, and the reasons on which these superior advantages are founded'; VI. 'View of the information that has been obtained concerning the extent of the trade of other European nations to Africa, and the manner in which the same is carried on, and concerning the treatment of slaves ..'; 'Appendix' Paper A[-D].
Lists and discusses laws and regulations related to slaves in each of the British West Indian colonies.
Includes extensive detailed statistical information and tables on the import and export of products in the British West Indies and Africa, and demographic data in the British West Indies.
Princeton copy 1 inscribed with mss. ink annotations by abolitionist Henry Thornton (1760-1815).
Binding note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary full leather.
Provenance
WHS copy acquired 12/67 from Geoffrey Steele.
Princeton copy 1 Armorial bookplate of Henry Thornton.
Princeton copy 1 Armorial bookplate of Percy M. Thornton.
Princeton copy 1 Label of Birkbeck College (London) on back free endpaper.
Source acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959 2010
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ESTC T93387
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1375241652
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