A letter on the abolition of the slave trade : addressed to the freeholders and other inhabitants of Yorkshire / by W. Wilberforce, Esq.

A comprehensive, influential denouncement of the slave trade by one of Britain's leading abolitionists.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833 (Author)
Corporate Authors: Cadell & Davies (Publisher)
Luke Hansard and Sons (Printer)
Other Authors: Hatchard, John, 1768-1849 (Bookseller)
Language:English
Published: London : For T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, and sold also by J. Hatchard, Picadilly, and W. Sancho, at the Mews Gate, 1807.
Subjects:
Ownership and Custodial History:
Embossed stamps of the Worcester Public Library, with its due-date slip from the 1880s affixed to the front paste-down. A four-page account of Wilberforce's achievements, printed in Bristol by Partridge and Love around 1925, is tipped to the front fly-leaf.
Laid-in material transferred to MSS 466 Box 1 Folder 347
Local Note:
MSU: Lacking the half-title.
Binding Information:
Contemporary quarter brown leather and pink marbled boards.
Physical Description:4 unnumbered pages, iii, 1 unnumbered page, 396 pages ; 22 cm (8vo)
Format: Book

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