Views on Slavery
From Dickinson College Wiki
In October of 1787 Cooper published Letters on the Slave Trade. The book paints in vivid colors the brutality of the slave trade and of slave life in the West Indies and America, computes the enormous losses of lives involved, and appeals to the commerical sense as well as the sympathies of his fellow townsmen to arrest the traffic. A "Supplement" to the Letters was printed in 1788 which computes at length, with statistics, the number of negroes sacrificed, directly or indirectly, to the slave trade. A third work, Considerations on the Slave Trade and the Consumption of West Indian Produce, was published at London in 1791.