Slave trade.
Haddington : G. Miller and Son, printers,
[1814]
An abolitionist broadside from Scotland indicating that the residents of Dunbar are petitioning Parliament for the universal  abolition of the slave trade. Beneath the title is a woodcut of a slave being whipped by a white man, followed by an abolitionist  poem and a call to the residents of Dunbar to sign the petition: “It is requested that every well wisher to the melioration  of the poor Africans, and those who, from motives of humanity, are inclined to give their dissenting vote to the revival of  the bloody traffic, will come forward without delay.”
Dated "Dunbar, July 1st, 1814."
An abolitionist broadside from Scotland indicating that the residents of Dunbar are petitioning Parliament for the universal  abolition of the slave trade. Beneath the title is a woodcut of a slave being whipped by a white man, followed by an abolitionist  poem and a call to the residents of Dunbar to sign the petition: “It is requested that every well wisher to the melioration  of the poor Africans, and those who, from motives of humanity, are inclined to give their dissenting vote to the revival of  the bloody traffic, will come forward without delay.”
Antislavery movements
Slave trade
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