An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species
Subtitle: particularly the African, translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize, in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785, with additions. [One line from Livy]
Contributors: Portmore, Thomas Charles Colyear, Earl of, 1772-1835; Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836
Edition: The third edition.
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Philadelphia]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 155
Subjects: Dissertations; Blacks; Slavery; Slave trade; University of Cambridge
Notes: Attributed to Thomas Clarkson in the Dictionary of national biography.

Dedicated to William Charles Colyear.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [156].

Reproduction of the original from the Bodleian Library (Oxford).