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Chart of the world, on Mercator's projection illustrative of the impolicy of slavery

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Cross, Joseph

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Date of publication estimated from "J. Whatman" watermark.Includes explanatory text below map.PJ Mode CollectionMap showing sugar producing areas where slave labor is used, contrasted with sugar producing areas with which trade is restricted or prohibited because of high duties which protect the sugar of the slave economy. Produced by James Cropper, as an economic argument for the abolition of slavery in the British Empire. Originally published in the Liverpool Mercury in 1823, and published in various other publications through 1828.
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