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American Slavery As It Is - Testimony Of A Thousand Witnesses

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 An extensive collection of first-hand testimony and narratives by slaveholders describing the facts and highlighting the cruelty of the slave trade. First published in 1839 and edited by the evangelist and abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld (1803â€"95), this work was one of the most influential books of the anti-slavery movement.
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Captain Canot - Or, Twenty Years Of An African Slaver

by Theodore Canot

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 The career of the slave trader Captain Theodore Canot (1804â€"60) was long and eventful. First published in 1854 and edited by Brantz Mayer (1809â€"79), this is an intimate and sometimes graphic account of Canot's life, giving a first-hand description of the practicalities and difficulties of the slave trade.
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The Trials Of The Slave Traders, Samuel Samo, Joseph Peters, And William Tufft - And The Fugitive Slave Circulars

by Anonymous e Henry George Tuke

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 Britain's 1807 law abolishing slave trading in its empire was put to the test during trials in Sierra Leone in 1812, an 1813 report on which is reissued here, alongside a short 1876 account of the 1772 Somerset v. Stewart case that represented a milestone on the road to abolition.
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Up From Slavery - An Autobiography

by Booker T. Washington

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 Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington (1856â€"1915) went on to become an educator and one of the most important African-American community leaders. In this 1901 autobiography, using his own life as an example, Washington sets out his philosophy for improving the lot of African Americans through vocational education.
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A Representation Of The Injustice And Dangerous Tendency Of Tolerating Slavery

by Granville Sharp

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 Granville Sharp (1735â€"1813) undertook legal research to oppose slavery, and in 1769 published this work to demonstrate that slavery has no basis in English law. In 1772, the case of James Somerset was brought before Lord Mansfield, who upheld Sharp's contention, effectively freeing all slaves in England.
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Memoirs Of Granville Sharp, Esq. - Composed From His Own Manuscripts, And Other Authentic Documents In The Possession Of His Family And Of The African Institution

by Granville Sharp

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 The family of leading anti-slavery campaigner Granville Sharp (1735â€"1813) consigned his archives to the painter, playwright and author Prince Hoare, who published this biography in 1820. Sharp's work for abolition, and his other charitable and scholarly activities, are detailed in this fascinating work, drawn directly from his own writings.
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The Anti-Slavery Cause In America And Its Martyrs

by Eliza Wigham

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 Eliza Wigham (1820â€"99), Scots philanthropist and champion of women's rights, published this short book in 1863. Her aim was to counter pressure on the British government to support the Confederacy in the American Civil War by describing both the history of abolitionism and individual stories of hardship and cruelty.
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Three Years In Europe - Or, Places I Have Seen And People I Have Met

by William Wells Brown

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 William Wells Brown (1814?â€"84) was born a slave in Kentucky, but escaped to Ohio in 1834. In 1849, having achieved prominence in the anti-slavery movement, he left for Europe, to lecture against slavery, and this account of his travels in Europe, prefaced by a short biography, was published in 1852.
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Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom - Or, The Escape Of William And Ellen Craft From Slavery

by Ellen Craft e William Craft

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 This compelling narrative, first published in 1860, recounts how William Craft (c.1825â€"1900) and his wife Ellen (c.1825â€"1891) courageously escaped from slavery in America. The work traces their flight from Georgia to find freedom in the north and, later, in England.
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The Proceedings Of The Governor And Assembly Of Jamaica, In Regard To The Maroon Negroes

by The Governor And Assembly Of Jamaica

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 A wealthy planter in the West Indies, Bryan Edwards (1743â€"1800) lived in Jamaica during the peak of its sugar wealth. This 1796 publication relates to the recent conflict between the British and runaway slaves, known as Maroons. Edwards prefaces the various letters and documents with an extended introductory account.
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The Just Limitation Of Slavery In The Laws Of God - Compared With The Unbounded Claims Of The African Traders And British American Slaveholders

by Granville Sharp

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 Granville Sharp (1735â€"1813) was a founding member of the London committee of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. This 1776 tract, a riposte to the idea that slavery is sanctioned by God, is a rigorous defence of liberty and of 'the honour of holy Scriptures'.
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An Essay On The Slavery And Commerce Of The Human Species - Particularly The African, Translated From A Latin Dissertation, Which Was Honoured With The First Prize In The University Of Cambridge, For The Year 1

by John Newton e Thomas Clarkson

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 This reissue incorporates Thomas Clarkson's 1786 Essay alongside John Newton's graphic Thoughts on the African Slave Trade (1788), a first-hand account of his experiences of the Middle Passage in the 1750s. Clarkson's highly influential piece marks the beginning of the anti-slavery campaigning to which he devoted his life.
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The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano - Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

by Olaudah Equiano

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 Olaudah Equiano (c.1745â€"97) was born in Nigeria and sold into slavery as a child. His successful 1789 autobiography boosted the abolitionist cause and remains a classic account of the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. It is also a significant work of black British history and literature.
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The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano - Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

by Olaudah Equiano

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 Olaudah Equiano (c.1745â€"97) was born in Nigeria and sold into slavery as a child. His successful 1789 autobiography boosted the abolitionist cause and remains a classic account of the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. It is also a significant work of black British history and literature.
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Thoughts And Sentiments On The Evil And Wicked Traffic Of The Slavery And Commerce Of The Human Species - Humbly Submitted To The Inhabitants Of Great Britain

by Ottobah Cugoano

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 First published in 1787, this bold work by Ottobah Cugoano, an emancipated slave living in England, was one of the first writings by an African Briton about slavery. It refutes pro-slavery arguments, calls for immediate abolition and asserts the moral duty of slaves to rebel against their oppressors.
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An Essay On The Treatment And Conversion Of African Slaves In The British Sugar Colonies

by James Ramsay

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 First published in 1784, this work documents the findings of a Christian missionary and surgeon who spent twenty years observing the exploitation of African slaves in the West Indian sugar plantations. Highly influential in the anti-slavery movement, it remains relevant in Caribbean and colonial history.
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Facts And Documents Connected With The Late Insurrection In Jamaica - With A Narrative Of Events Since The First Of August, 1834

by James Williams

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 This 1832 pamphlet details the violence directed against nonconformists and missionaries, who were regarded as having been sympathetic towards Jamaica's Christmas Rebellion. It is reissued with an 1837 narrative by James Williams, who became an apprentice under the system that replaced slavery. He describes how conditions for former slaves were little improved.
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Slavery

by William Ellery Channing

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 Published in 1836, this work by the Unitarian preacher William Ellery Channing (1780â€"1842) reveals the difficulties he had in questioning a practice with which he had grown up. Although firmly against the institution of slavery, he thought slaves incapable of governing themselves, and slaveholders deserving of consideration and patience.
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West African Countries And Peoples, British And Native - And A Vindication Of The African Race

by James Africanus Beale Horton

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 In West African Countries and Peoples, published in 1868, Sierra Leone-born doctor James Africanus Beale Horton (1835â€"1883) refutes derogatory Victorian racial ideas about Africans. He was also considered an early proponent of African independence because he examines the potential of self-government almost 100 years before decolonisation.
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The History Of A Slave

by Harry Hamilton Johnston

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 Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston (1858â€"1927) was an explorer and colonial administrator. This book is his fictionalised account of the life of a slave, based on anecdotes gathered on his travels. A brutal and often gruesome depiction of one man's survival in the face of violence, cannibalism and extreme cruelty.
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The Correspondence Of William Wilberforce

by William Wilberforce

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 William Wilberforce (1759â€"1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his work to abolish the slave trade. He devoted much of his life to the ending of slavery, and other moral and humanitarian causes. The letters were published in 1840 by two of his sons.
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The Life Of William Wilberforce

by William Wilberforce

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 William Wilberforce (1759â€"1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his efforts to end the slave trade. This five-volume biography, drawn from his diaries and letters, was published by his sons in 1838, and shows the circumstances and motivations which drove Wilberforce's career.
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The Life Of William Wilberforce

by William Wilberforce

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 William Wilberforce (1759â€"1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his efforts to end the slave trade. This five-volume biography, drawn from his diaries and letters, was published by his sons in 1838, and shows the circumstances and motivations which drove Wilberforce's career.
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The Life Of William Wilberforce

by William Wilberforce

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 William Wilberforce (1759â€"1833) was a politician, philanthropist and evangelical Christian, now best known for his efforts to end the slave trade. This five-volume biography, drawn from his diaries and letters, was published by his sons in 1838, and shows the circumstances and motivations which drove Wilberforce's career.
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