| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 2 | Title: | Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes: with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748
| | | | Creator: | Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 | | | | Publication: | Printed by Christopher Sower, Germantown,1760. | | | | Notes: | First edition, 1759. The uncertainity of a death-bed repentance, illustrated under the character of Penitens: p. [12]-16. "Benezet...of a French family of St. Quentin, was driven from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Having fixed his residence in Philadelphia, he adopted the doctrine of the Quakers. His humanity impelled him to attempt an amelioration of the condition of both the Indians and Negroes,by publishing treaties exhibiting the unhappy state to which each had been reduced by the cupidity and neglect of the whites."--Field, Indian bibliography. cf. also A.S. Bolles, Pennsylvania, province and state, 1899, v.2, 447-448. | | | | Call #: | HT991 B465 Vault | | | | Extent: | 16 p. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slave trade | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Commerce in the human species, and the enslaving of innocent persons, inimical to the laws of Moses and the gospel of Christ: a sermon, preached in Little Prescot Street, Goodman's Fields, London, Jan. 29, 1792
| | | | Creator: | Booth, Abraham, 1734-1806 | | | | Publication: | Re-printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, Philadelphia,1792. | | | | Notes: | Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed by L. Wayland, 1792. Includes bibliographical references. | | | | Call #: | HT1162 B725 | | | | Extent: | 40 p. ; 17 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slave trade | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 4 | Title: | A short sketch of the evidence for the abolition of the slave trade, delivered before a committee of the House of Commons: to which is added, a recommendation of the subject to the serious attention of people in general
| | | | Uniform Title: | Abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791.
| | | | Creator: | Crafton, William Bell. | | | | | Fox, William, fl. 1791-1813 | | | | | Martyn, Benjamin, Selections., 1699-1763 | | | | Publication: | London, printed, Philadelphia, re-printed by Daniel Lawrence, Philadelphia],1792. | | | | Notes: | Based on: An abstract of the evidence delivered before a select committee of the House of Commons in the years 1790 and 1791. Signed (p. 28): W.B.C., i.e. William Bell Crafton. Signatures: A-Dp6s. "An address to the people of Great Britain, on the propriety of abstaining from West India sugar and rum / [William Fox]. The tenth edition, with additions": 16 p., with special t.p. "Postscript" (p. [1]-[3] at end) extracted from: An impartial enquiry into the state and utility of the province of Georgia / [Benjamin Martyn]. | | | | Call #: | HT1162 C885 | | | | Extent: | 28, 16, [4] p. ; 18 cm. bound to 21 cm. (12mo) | | | | Subjects: | Slave trade | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | The case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans: respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the legislation of Great-Britain
| | | | Creator: | Society of Friends London Yearly Meeting. Meeting for Sufferings. | | | | | Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 | | | | | Ady, John, d. 1812 | | | | Publication: | Printed [by J. Phillips], Re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market Street, London, Philadelphia,1784. | | | | Notes: | "Signed by order of the Meeting for Sufferings ... John Ady, clerk to the meeting."--p. 15. Attributed to A. Benezet by the British Museum, Sabin (4669) and Cushing. | | | | Call #: | HT1033 F91b Vault | | | | Extent: | 13 p. ; 21 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slave trade | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 6 | Title: | The injustice and impolicy of the slave trade: and of the slavery of the Africans: illustrated in a sermon preached before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and for the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage, at their annual meeting in New-Haven, September 15, 1791
| | | | Creator: | Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801 | | | | | The Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom and the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage | | | | Publication: | Printed by T. and S. Green, New Haven?],1791. | | | | Call #: | E446 E26 1791 | | | | Extent: | 1 p. Á., 37 p. 19 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 18th century | Slave trade | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | A discourse, delivered at the African meeting-house, in Boston, July 14, 1808: in grateful celebration of the abolition of the African slave-trade, by the governments of the United States, Great Britain and Denmark
| | | | Creator: | Morse, Jedidiah, 1761-1826 | | | | | African Society (Boston, Mass.) | | | | Publication: | Printed by Lincoln & Edmands, Boston,1808. | | | | Call #: | E446 M885a | | | | Extent: | 28 p. 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Slavery -- United States -- Controversial literature -- 19th century | Slave trade | Imprints, Early American To 1820
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