1839 THOMAS CLARKSON. History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Rare Illustrated Edition. Missionary illustrators

illustrators

being first duly sworn (or affirmed) depose and say that I am over twenty-one years of age

and one showing slave shackles reading "West Indies Emancipation

with whom he had worked as assistant editor and contributor at The Herald of the Morning

volume 5 a bit shorter [as usual]

1839 THOMAS CLARKSON. History of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade. Rare Illustrated Edition. Missionary illustratorsA foundational work on the history of the abolitionist cause by Thomas Clarkson (17601846). Clarkson was one of the leading campaigners against slavery and the African slave trade. With Granville Sharp, he founded the Committee for the Abolition of the African Slave Trade in 1787, which was the main campaigning body behind the eventual legislative victory. The book itself is the definitive firsthand chronicle of the abolitionist movement in Britain.