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Mitigation of slavery, in two parts : part I. letters and papers of the late Hon. Joshua Steele, vice president of the London Society of Arts, etc. and member of His Majesty's Council in Barbadoes, describing the steps by which, to his own great profit, he raised the oppressed slaves, on his sugar plantations, nearly to the condition of hired servants, his observations on the slave-laws, &c. : part II. letters to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. A.M. proving that bought slaves, who keep not up their numbers by the births, do not nearly refund their purchase-money, and that the planter's true resource is to rear his slaves, the great success of the plough, in raising the sugar-cane, &c. by William Dickson, LL.D. formerly secretary to His Excellency the late Hon. Edward Hay, Governor, &c. of the above ancient and important colony.

Title: Mitigation of slavery, in two parts : part I. letters and papers of the late Hon. Joshua Steele, vice president of the London Society of Arts, etc. and member of His Majesty's Council in Barbadoes, describing the steps by which, to his own great profit, he raised the oppressed slaves, on his sugar plantations, nearly to the condition of hired servants, his observations on the slave-laws, &c. : part II. letters to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. A.M. proving that bought slaves, who keep not up their numbers by the births, do not nearly refund their purchase-money, and that the planter's true resource is to rear his slaves, the great success of the plough, in raising the sugar-cane, &c. by William Dickson, LL.D. formerly secretary to His Excellency the late Hon. Edward Hay, Governor, &c. of the above ancient and important colony.
Publication: London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor, Shoe-Lane; and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1814.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Request in advance	Sc Rare D 16-12 (Lapidus Collection)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc Rare 326.972-D (Dickson, W. Mitigation of slavery)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc Rare 326.972-D (Dickson, W. Mitigation of slavery)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Description

xxxii, 528 pages; 22 cm.

Subjects

Black people > Barbados
Slavery > Barbados
Slaves > Barbados > Social conditions
Slave labor
Slavery > West Indies, British > Controversial literature > 1814
Slave trade
Slavery > Law and legislation

Note

Includes index.
Errata, page 528.

Indexed In (note)

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.)
Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time

Source (note)

Arthur A. Schomburg;
of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Binding (note)

bound in marbled paper boards, with white printed label on spine ; unopened and untrimmed pages.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.972-D (Dickson, W. Mitigation of slavery)

OCLC

25974032
NYPGR25974032-B

Title

Mitigation of slavery, in two parts : part I. letters and papers of the late Hon. Joshua Steele, vice president of the London Society of Arts, etc. and member of His Majesty's Council in Barbadoes, describing the steps by which, to his own great profit, he raised the oppressed slaves, on his sugar plantations, nearly to the condition of hired servants, his observations on the slave-laws, &c. : part II. letters to Thomas Clarkson, Esq. A.M. proving that bought slaves, who keep not up their numbers by the births, do not nearly refund their purchase-money, and that the planter's true resource is to rear his slaves, the great success of the plough, in raising the sugar-cane, &c. by William Dickson, LL.D. formerly secretary to His Excellency the late Hon. Edward Hay, Governor, &c. of the above ancient and important colony.

Publisher

London : Printed by R. and A. Taylor, Shoe-Lane; and sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row, 1814.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

Catalogue of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature, 21068

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 (2nd ed.), 9784

Ragatz, L.J. Guide for the study of British Caribbean history, 1763-1834, page 498

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 20095

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.972-D (accession no. B513241) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Binding

Copy in Sc Rare D 16-12 (Lapidus Collection) bound in marbled paper boards, with white printed label on spine ; unopened and untrimmed pages. NN

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Added Author

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846.

Dickson, William, active 1789-1815. Letters to Thomas Clarkson.

Steele, Joshua, 1700-1791. Letters and papers of the late Hon. Joshua Steele.

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

Richard and Arthur Taylor (Firm), printer.

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.972-D (Dickson, W. Mitigation of slavery)

Sc Rare D 16-12 (Lapidus Collection)

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