Research Catalog

Title

A view of the present increase of the slave trade : the cause of that increase, and suggesting a mode for effecting its total annihilation ; with observations on the African Institution and Edinburgh Review, and on the speeches of Messrs. Wilberforce and Brougham, delivered in the House of Commons, 7th July, 1817 ; also, a plan submitted for civilizing Africa, and introducing free labourers into our colonies in the West Indies / by Robert Thorpe, Esq. LL. D. late chief justice of Sierra Leone, and judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court in that colony.

Author

Thorpe, Robert

Publication

• London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.
• London : Barnard and Farley, 1818.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.
• Barnard & Farley, printer.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

iv, 128 pages; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Slave-trade > Great Britain
• Slave-trade > Africa
• African Institution (London, England) Report
• Slaves > Emancipation > Controversial literature
• Slavery
• Slave trade

Genre/Form

Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• "Barnard and Farley, Skinner Street, London."--T.p. verso and colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature. Catalogue of the collection of broadsides in the University Library
• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
• Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available in digital format via the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-T (Thorpe, R. View of the present increase of the slave trade)

OCLC

11638728

Author

Thorpe, Robert, author.

Title

A view of the present increase of the slave trade : the cause of that increase, and suggesting a mode for effecting its total annihilation ; with observations on the African Institution and Edinburgh Review, and on the speeches of Messrs. Wilberforce and Brougham, delivered in the House of Commons, 7th July, 1817 ; also, a plan submitted for civilizing Africa, and introducing free labourers into our colonies in the West Indies / by Robert Thorpe, Esq. LL. D. late chief justice of Sierra Leone, and judge of the Vice-Admiralty Court in that colony.

Publisher

London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818.

Manufacturer

London : Barnard and Farley, 1818.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Goldsmiths Library of Economic Literature. Catalogue of the collection of broadsides in the University Library, 22260

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 10269

Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834, p. 561

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 9, page 7606-7607, column 3-1, row 7-1

Additional Formats

Also available in digital format via the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is one of the items added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the Collection Librarian; & Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," NYPL's perforated stamp, and early processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. Bound in red cloth over boards, library binding, and gilt spine, with a library bounding date stamped: "Dec. 9, 1940."-- page [3] of cover. It also contains some illegible manuscript inscriptions in ink & graphite.

Source

D128493. NN

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Place of Publication

Great Britain England London.

Added Author

Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, publisher.

Barnard & Farley, printer.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-T (Thorpe, R. View of the present increase of the slave trade)