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Early American abolitionists : a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820
Title
Early American abolitionists : a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820 / general editor, James G. Basker ; associate editors Justine Ahlstrom [and others].
ISBN
1932821066
9781932821062
9781932821369
1932821368
Published
New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005.
Physical Description
xvi, 372 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN JWJ Zan2 2005 Ea761: From the Robert B. Stepto papers.
Variant and related titles
Poetical epistle to the enslaved Africans : in the character of an ancient negro, born a slave in Pennsylvania ; but liberated some years since, and instructed in useful learning, and the great truths of Christianity : with a brief historical introduction, and biographical notices of some of the earliest advocated for that oppressed class of our fellow-creatures / edited by Joseph Sansom.
Three anti-slavery woman writers: the African chief and an excerpt from Beacon Hill by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton; On slavery by Isabella Oliver Sharp; and An address to the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina by Ann Alexander / edited by Kathryn Gin.
American in Algiers, or, The patriot of seventy-six in captivity : a poem in two cantos / edited by Micah Guster.
Other formats
Online version: Early American abolitionists. New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes / by Anthony Benezet.
2. Mite cast into the treasury, or, Observations on slave-keeping / by David Cooper.
3. Serious address to the rulers of America on the inconsistency of their conduct respecting slavery / by David Cooper.
4. Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.
5. Poetical epistle to the enslaved Africans / by Joseph Sansom.
6. Injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans / by Jonathan Edwards.
7. Three anti-slavery women writers.
8. Minutes of the proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States.
9. American in Algiers, or, The patriot of seventy-six in captivity / [anonymous].
10. Oration on the abolition of the slave trade / by Henry Sipkins.
11. Letters from A man of colour on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / by James Forten.
12. Papers relative to the restriction of slavery / by Rufus King.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
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Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery : and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage ... To which are added the Acts of the General assembly of Pennsylvania for the gradual abolition of slavery / edited by Sam Rosenfeld.
Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States. Minutes of the proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States : assembled at Philadelphia, on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and continued, by adjournments, until the seventh day of the same month, inclusive / edited by Jennifer Randazzo.
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