A very rare sammelband of 16 issues of the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter / The Anti-Slavery Reporter from the critical period between the Slave Trade Act [1807] and the Slavery Abolition Act, passed in 1833, both spearheaded by William Wilberforce, with the latter passed shortly after his death in July of the same year. 

The present volume appears to have belonged to prominent slave-owner, Thomas Deane, Esq, who likely received the issues monthly and had them bound later.

Thomas Deane was from a prominent Bristol family with sugar refinery interests in the Islands. This was one of the trades most associated with the most horrific instances of slavery. Perhaps he subscribed to keep up with potential threats to his business model. 

Contents include:

The Treatment of Slaves at Mauritius; Slave Cruelties at Bel Ombre; Impunity of Crimes against Slaves; Crimes against Two Negro Boys and Seraphine - A Negress; On the Suicide of Slaves; Society for the Conversion and Religious Instruction and Education of the Negro Slaves; Dr. Burgess - the Present Bishop of Salisbury - on Colonial Slavery; Appeal to the Bench of Bishops by Granville Sharpe; Fresh Atrocities in Berbice; Defence of the Society for the Conversion of Slaves; Cruelties of Mr. and Mrs. Moss of the Bahamas toward a Female Slave; Emancipation of Negro Children; Civil Rights of the Free Black and Coloured Inhabitants of Our Colonies; Attacks on the Anti-Slavery Reporter; The Compulsory Manumission Clause; Revelation of Colonial Secrets; The Culture of Sugar by Free Labour; The Progress of Colonial Reform [Bermuda, Tortola, Trinidad, St. Lucia, Tobago, Mauritius, Honduras, Bernice, Bermuda, etc.]; The Dublin Anti-Slavery Society; Observations on the State of the Present Anti-Slavery Cause; Reports of the "Protectors of Slaves;" Pro-Slavery Writings from Jamaica; Jamaica's Transfer of Allegiance to the United States; Mendicant Slaves; The Cost of Negro Slavery; The Slave Trade in the West Indies; The New Slave Code of Crown Colonies, with Observations; Anti-Slavery Associations; The Driving Whip, Admissibility of Slave Testimony; The Negro Race Enslaved and Free; A Slave Market; Instances of Savage Cruelty; Cruel and Unust Treatment of the Aboriginal Indians, etc., etc. 

An important June 1830 issue includes: The Proceedings of a General Meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society and its Friends held at the Freemason's Hall on 15th of May, 1830, Mr. Wilberforce in the Chair, Containing the Substance of the Speeches Delivered, and the Resolutions Adopted. Includes content by Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Thomas Fowell Buxton, Daniel Wilson, Lord Brougham, Lushington, etc., nearly a full transcript of the meetings and addresses. 

Issues here bound include:

Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. January, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. February, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. March, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. April, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. May, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. June, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. July, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. August, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. September, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. October, 1829 [with Supplement]. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. November, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. December, 1829. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1829.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. January, 1830. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. February, 1830. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. March, 1830. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. April, 1830. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. June, 1830 [with Supplement]. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

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Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter. July, 1830. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

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The Anti-Slavery Reporter. July, 1830. London. Bagster & Thoms. 1830.

Good overall; half leather as shown, leather consolidated; breached at hinges, but solid. Minor to moderate foxing as shown. Very solid.