London. Frank Cass & Co. Ltd. 1968. 2 vols. pp (xi ), 572; (viii), 587. 2 plates, both folded. 8vo. D/W. Cass Library of African Studies, Slavery Series No. 8. General Editor C. Duncan Rice. SBN 714618896. Facsimile reprint of the 1808 edition. A very good, bright, clean copy. Ragatz p489. Contains a very complete account of the abolition movement to the middle of 1794 and a sketch of its final, victorious phase. Of source value, especially up to the date indicated, as the author was himself one of the staunchest advocates of the reform and was intimately associated with Ramsay, Wilberforce, and others for a decade beginning in 1785 until his failing health obliged him to discontinue his active work.
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