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 1785

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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.