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- McDONNELL, Alexander A letter to Thos Fowell Buxton Esq., M.P. in refutation of his allegations respecting the decrease of the slaves in the British West India colonies. London: Effingham Wilson, 1833 8vo, 80pp, title lightly foxed, recently well bound in cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A very good copy. First edition. Goldsmiths 28331. Kress C.3538. Ragatz p.529. Williams II, 444. Not in Black. McDonnell was the anti-abolitionist secretary of the committee of the Inhabitants of Demerara and hence an advocate of Caribbean interests. He took the view that the sugar colonies were tremendously important to the motherland as they afforded a vent for the employment of surplus capital and a steady, certain market which wars could not disturb. Buxton had compiled statistics purporting to show that there had been a decrease of 52,624 slaves in the sugar islands in little more than a decade and declared that the decline had arisen from ill treatment. He was advocating immediate emancipation. McDonnell here challenges both his figures and his conclusion. Price - £150 |
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