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xxii, 167, [1]p. 8vo. Bound without half title, a few corner creases. BOUND WITH: An Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade. In two parts. The second edition. Printed and Sold by J. Phillips. 138pp. 8vo. Contemp. full tree calf, single ruled gilt borders, spine dec. in gilt, red morocco label; expert, near imperceptible repairs to hinges. Armorial bookplate & engraved illus. book label of William Lane. Later 19th Century initials of RLB on leading blank, and 20thC book label of Peter A. Crofts on leading f.e.p. A handsome copy. ESTC T147682 & T33373. First published in 1786 and 1788 respectively. Thomas Clarkson was introduced to the Quaker printer James Philllips by his friend Joseph Hancock whom he knew from his home in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. In his The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament, Clarkson writes: 'In going past the Royal Exchange, Mr. Joseph Hancock, one of the religious society of the Quakers, and with whose family my own had been long united in friendship, suddenly met me. He first accosted me by saying that I was the person whom he was wishing to see. He then asked me why I had not published my Prize Essay. I asked him in return what had made him think of that subject in particular. He replied, that his own Society had long taken it up as a religious body, and individuals among them were wishing to find me out. I asked him who. He answered, James Phillips, a bookseller, in George-yard, Lombard-street, and William Dillwyn, of Walthamstow, and others. Having but little time to spare, I desired him to introduce me to one of them. In a few minutes he took me to James Phillips, who was then the only one of them in town; by whose conversation I was so much interested and encouraged, that without any further hesitation I offered him the publication of my work. This accidental introduction of me to James Phillips was, I found afterwards, a most happy circumstance for the promotion of the cause, which I had then so deeply at heart, as it led me to the knowledge of several of those, who became afterwards material coadjutors in it.' Hancock and Phillips made the momentous introduction of Clarkson to a newly formed Quaker Committee promoting opposition to the slave trade which agreed to fund the publication of An Essay…. On 22 May 1787, Clarkson became one of the twelve founding members of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, generally known as the London Abolition Committee, joining with the five surviving members of the informal Quaker committee, Granville Sharp, Philip Sansom and three more Quakers, Joseph Hooper, John Barton, James Phillips & his cousin, Richard Phillips. The exhaustive work carried out by the committee, and Clarkson in particular, together with the support of William Wilberforce in parliament, helped lead to the Slave Trade Act of 1807 and the Slave Abolition Act of 1833. This copy belonged to the publisher William Lane, founder of the Minerva Press. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 100591
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