BIB_ID
136200
Accession number
MA Unassigned
Creator
Ripon, Frederick John Robinson, Earl of, 1782-1859.
Display Date
1854 Aug. 24 and 30.
Description
2 items (17 p.) ; (12mo) + one with envelope.
Notes
From Carlyle, Letters, etc.
Summary
Concerning papers relative to the embassy of his great grandfather, Sir Thomas Robinson, and discussing at length slavery and economic conditions in the West Indies; in the second letter, making a number of arguments about abolitionism and the relationship between slaveholders and the people they enslaved; using offensive language to describe the latter; drawing connections between the "Industrial Anarchy" of the West Indies and the situation in England; deploring the "Doctrine of 'cash-payments the sole nexus between man & man.'"
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