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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 93



3. Review of Medical and Miscellaneous Observations Relative to the West India Islands, by John Williamson, Edinburgh Review (August 1817): 340-71.


Review of a book by a medical doctor who spent fourteen years attending to slaves in the British West Indies. The doctor’s views were antagonistic to the abolitionist perspective, and the author of the review discusses slavery in light of the doctor’s comments.