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Item #27378 Mercator's Reply to Mr. Booth's Pamphlet on Free Trade, as published in the Liverpool Standard. To which are added, two letters on the currency question and one on taxation. Sir John GLADSTONE.
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Mercator's Reply to Mr. Booth's Pamphlet on Free Trade, as published in the Liverpool Standard. To which are added, two letters on the currency question and one on taxation

Liverpool: printed for S. Franceys, 1833. 8vo. (9 x 5 5/8 inches). Half-title. [4], 52pp.

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An opposition to the repeal of the Corn Laws and against a free trade system.

"As a major slave owner [John Gladstone] was deeply embroiled in the troubles of the West Indies, in the debates on slavery and in the emancipation struggle; he was one of the foremost lobbyists among the planters, resisting this first step within the British Empire toward turning slaves into a wage-earning labour force" (Checkland, The Gladstones: A Family Biography, Cambridge University Press: 1971, p. xi). For an overview of Gladstone's slaveholdings, his position on the institution, and his role in the emancipation debate, see Checkland, chapters 19 and 24.

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Item #27378

Price: $150.00

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