ABSTRACT
Charles Crawford published many poems, odes and essays between 1773 and 1815. Often his theme was religious, his 1783 poem The Christian was reprinted three times in 1794, 1802 and 1815, and he particularly espoused the conversion of Native Americans to Christianity. In some of his later works he claims to be Earl of Crawford and Lindsay and Viscount Garnock. It is possible that Crawford was related to aristocratic line, and believed himself to have a better claim, but was unable to prove it. Crawford’s Observations upon Negro-Slavery is a good example of the abolitionist literature that was increasingly common in the Anglo-Atlantic in the last years of the eighteenth century. It marks the transition between those who were simply anti-slavery to those who actively campaigned for abolition through publications and political actions. These campaigns would have their first successes with the suppression of the international slave trade in 1807 in Britain and in 1808 in United States of America.
