Jacques-Pierre BRISSOT DE WARVILLE
Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale, pour l'abolition de la traite des Noirs
[Address to the National Assembly for the Abolition of the Slave Trade]
De l'imprimerie de L. Potier de Lille|Paris 1790|12 x 19.30 cm (In-8)|relié
First edition of one of the most important revolutionary publications against the African slave trade and the first manifesto of the Society of the Friends of the Blacks, founded in February 1788 by Jacques-Pierre Brissot, Étienne Clavière, and Mirabeau, barely nine months after the London Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, which served as their model.
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