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STUART, CHARLES. The West India Question. Immediate Emancipation Would Be Safe for the Masters;--Profitable for the Masters;--Happy for the Slaves...an Outline for Immediate Emancipation; and Remarks on Compensation. New Haven, [Ct.]: Hezekiah Howe, 1833. First American Edition. 8vo. 43 pp. Removed. $200.00
B & B 21388. LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, 9958. Stuart, an officer in the British East India Company's forces, in the 1820s became a member of Charles Finney's "holy band" of revivalists and went to England to take part in the movement to abolish slavery in the British West Indies. This pamphlet, published in 1832 in London, was one of the most famous in the British struggle for emancipation. See DAB.
With vignette of a chained black woman, captioned "Am I not a woman and a sister?"