One of the most significant texts of the earliest days of William Wilberforce's efforts to end slavery. This scarce work attempts to summarize and comment on William Wilberforce's opening volley in what would be a decades long battle. The same year, 1792, Wilberforce presented an extensive report to Parliament, including the famed 7 panel cut-away charts detailing the "packaging" of human chattel for transportation from the African coast to the colonies.
Unlike the report itself, which was lengthy, expensive, and full of parliamentary statecraft and technicalities, Crafton's summary could be distributed far and wide, echoing the most immediately impactful and salient points of the report in a way that resonated with the British public.
[William Wilberforce] Crafton, William Bell. A Short Sketch of the Evidence Delivered Before a Committee of the House of Commons for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade: to Which is Added, a Recommendation of the Subject to the Serious Attention of People in General. The Third Edition, with Additions. London. 1792. 24pp.
A good + copy, bound in wraps, lightly shaken, with generally bright pages and light foxing. Spine flotsam present from remains of sammelband binding.
