author
Dr. (William) Dickson
d. 1891
A Scottish writer and abolitionist, he turned firsthand experience in Barbados into some of the earliest published arguments against slavery in the British Atlantic world. His work helped bring the realities of plantation slavery before British readers at a crucial moment in the abolition movement.
1 Audiobook
Special report on diseases of cattle
by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry, V. T. (Vickers T.) Atkinson, Dr. (William) Dickson, A. (Adolph) Eichhorn, Richard W. (Richard West) Hickman, James Law, (Dr.) (William Herbert) Lowe, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight) Marsh, John R. (John Robbins) Mohler, A. J. (Alexander James) Murray, Leonard Pearson, Brayton Howard Ransom, M. R. (Milton R.) Trumbower, Dr. (Benjamin Tilghman) Woodward
About the author
Born in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, and baptized in 1751, William Dickson later went to Barbados, where he served as a soldier, taught mathematics, and saw slavery up close. According to the Moffat Museum's summary of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, those experiences shaped the rest of his life and pushed him toward anti-slavery activism.
After returning to Britain, he became a writer and campaigner against slavery. His best-known work, Letters on Slavery (1789), drew on what he had witnessed in the Caribbean and helped make him an important voice in the British abolition movement. The same source notes that he came to the attention of leading reformers and was connected with wider anti-slavery efforts in Britain.
I couldn't confirm from the sources I found that he died in 1891; the strongest biographical source available here identifies him instead as William Dickson, baptized in 1751 and dead in 1823. I also found a bookseller listing under "Dr (William) Dickson" that attributes Special Report on Diseases of Cattle to that name, but without enough reliable context to connect it confidently to the abolitionist writer, so I've left that detail out.