Title:  The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol.  I

Author:  Thomas Clarkson

Release Date:  May 25, 2004 [EBook #12428]

Language:  English

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The
history
of the
rise, progress, and accomplishment
of
the abolition
of
the African slave-trade
by the
British parliament.

BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL.  I.

LONDON: 

1808.

TO

The right honourable William, lord Grenville,
the right honourable Charles, Earl Grey,
(late viscount Howick),
the right honourable Francis, Earl Moira,
the right honourable George John, Earl Spencer,
the right honourable Henry Richard, lord Holland,
the right honourable Thomas, lord Erskine,
the right honourable Edward, lord Ellenborough,
the right honourable lord Henry petty,
the right honourable, Thomas Grenville,
nine out of twelve of his majesty’s late cabinet ministers, to whose wise
and virtuous administration belongs the unparalleled and eternal glory of
the annihilation (as far as their power extended) of one of the greatest
sources of crimes and sufferings, ever recorded in the annals of mankind;
and to the memories of the right honourable William Pitt, and of the right