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1838 Issue of the Edinburgh Review African American Education that Lays Out the Path for a Post-Slavery British Empire in Two Essays
1838réf. 174861838. Slavery and Abolition Long Essay on the Abolition of Slavery in Great Britain in Edinburgh Review American Edition January 1838. New York: William Lewer 1838. First Edition. Soft cover in original blue wrappers. This 24-page essay concerns 1 the Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Negro Apprenticeship London 1837 and 2 Papers relative to the Abolition of Slavery Parts I-III London 1837. These essays attempt to analyze the road ahead for Britain after it abolished slavery in 1833. It praises the effects of the 1833 bill such as the "immediate and absolute extinction of the essential principle of slavery. chattel slavery" the "immediate extinction not only of the principle of slavery but of ever remnant of the servile relation" "the immediate removal of the more important impediments to the civilisation of the existing servile population; by admitting their evidence in courts of justice by encouraging them to make contracts and receive wages; by recognising the validity of their marriages" etc. Very good condition in original wrappers with some foxing on the edges. unknown
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