A practical view of the present state of slavery in the West Indies, or, An examination of Mr. Stephen's "Slavery of the British West India Colonies:" containing more particularly an account of the actual condition of the negroes in Jamaica: with observations on the decrease of the slaves since the abolition of the slave trade, and on the probable effects of legislative emancipation: also, strictures on the Edinburgh Review, and on the pamphlets of Mr. Cooper and Mr. Bickell / By Alexander Barclay, lately and for twenty-one years resident in Jamaica.

Bibliotheca Eliotae (1548) / augmented by Thomas Cooper.

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