"Let any man of candour declare, whether the state of servitude and bondage, in which the poor are held both in France and England, does not merit the name of slavery, and justify the assertion of its universal existence at present, as well as the opinion of its having existed from the remotest antiquity, and that it ever must exist in the world--that it is a genus of the state of man, of which the different kinds of servitude are distinct species--that, as it is impossible totally to eradicate it, or put a stop even to the sale and purchase of the Negroes in Africa which is only one branch of the commerce of the human species, so the modification of the kind of servitude in usage in any country is not rashly to be attempted, nor, in any case, to be undertaken by persons not intimately acquainted with it in all its circumstances."
An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1789).<br>
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Gilbert Francklyn, <u>An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African; In a Series of Letters, From a Gentleman in Jamaica, To His Friend in London</u> (London: J. Walter, C. Stalker, and W. Richardson, 1789). &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=HKsNAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;