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  • 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.

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

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    Text Sc Rare 326.1-T (Thorpe, R. View of the present increase of the slave trade)Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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  • A commentary on the treaties entered into between His Britannic Majesty, and His Most Faithful Majesty, signed at London, the 28th of July, 1817 : between His Britannic Majesty, and His Catholic Majesty, signed at Madrid, the 23rd of September, 1817 : and between His Britannic Majesty, and His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, signed at the Hague, the 4th of May, 1818 : for the purpose of preventing their subjects from engaging in any illicit traffic in slaves / by Robert Thorpe, Esq. LL. D.

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    • London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternost Row ; Richardson, opposite the Royal Exchange ; Ridgeway, Piccadilly ; and Lloyd, Harley Street, Cavendish Square, 1819.
    • 1819
    • 1 Item
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    Text *C p.v. 1058 6 titlesSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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