An answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African
Subtitle: in a series of letters from a gentleman in Jamaica to his friend in London : wherein many of the mistakes and misinterpretations of Mr. Clarkson are pointed out, both with regard to the manner in which that commerce is carried on in Africa, and the treatment of the slaves in the West Indies, shewing at the same time the antiquity, universality, and lawfulness of slavery, as ever having been one of the states and conditions of mankind
By: by G. Francklyn
Contributors: Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833; Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed at the Logographic Press and sold by J. Walter and W. Richardson
Published: 1789
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Slave trade; Slavery; Colonies; Justification
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Royal Commonwealth Society. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

With: An Essay on the impolicy of the African slave trade : in two parts / by the Rev. T. Clarkson. London : Printed and sold by J. Phillips, 1788. (iv, 134 p.)

Includes bibliographical references.

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