Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Substance of the debates on a resolution for abolishing the slave trade : which was moved in the House of Commons on the 10th June, 1806, and in the House of Lords on the 24th June, 1806 : With an appendix, containing notes and illustrations.
Call Number
N-002953
Identifier
ark:/88435/dc6m3122976
Publisher
London : Printed and sold by Phillips and Fardon, George Yard, Lombard Street, 1806.
London : Sold also by John Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1806.
Language
English
Date Created
1806
Extent
xi, 216 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ; 20 cm
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 Early ownership signature on title page verso.
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Includes fold-out illustration, "View of a slave ship," opposite pp. 192.
The preface states that “It seemed to be highly desirable to preserve the substance of these speeches, as a record of the opinions which, after near twenty years of deliberation and enquiry, were entertained by our greatest statesmen, on one of the most momentous questions which perhaps ever agitated a Legislative assembly.” As such, it contains extracts from the speeches made by Wilberforce, Fox, Castlereagh, Generals Gascoyne and Tarleton in the House of Commons, and Grenville, Westmoreland, Hawkesbury, and others in the Lords.The appendix includes Mungo Park’s opinions on the slave trade, notes on the slave rebellion in Haiti, and other conflicts caused by the slave trade.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Half leather binding with marbled paper boards.

Discovery Information

Subject
Brooks (Slave ship)
Slavery
Slave trade
Binders' instructions
Half bindings
Autographs

Physical Characteristics

File Count
238

Institutional Information

Collection
Black History and Culture Evergreen Initiative
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/b67350b9-9b12-4b41-99f6-aab0b67d8df2/manifest