GODWIN, Benjamin.

The substance of a course of lectures on British colonial slavery, delivered at Bradford, York, and Scarborough.

London, J. Hatchard & Son, 1830. 8vo, pp. xi, 171, with a folding table; original publisher’s boards; upper joint cracked and internally reinforced, spine defective, remains of printed paper label; from the library of the Foreign Office, with its stamp on title and on p. [1]. First edition. ‘A series of four lectures on slavery as an institution, the evils of the system, its unlawfulness, the growth and progress of the anti-slave movement and the need for emancipation. The author, a nonconformist clergyman at Bradford, delivered these addresses in public halls to gain sympathy for the negro cause on the part of those who might not be drawn into a dissenting church to hear him speak. A later American edition appeared for propaganda purposes in the United States under the title Lectures on slavery’ (Ragatz).Goldsmiths’ 26479; Ragatz p. 507.

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• Bestellnummer: H1142.2

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