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
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Type of record: Book
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
Classmark: Society of Friends/BRO
Creator(s): Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784)
Additional creator(s): Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting (Other)
Publisher: Printed by Christopher Sower
Publication city: Germantown [Pa.]
Date(s): 1760
Language: English
Size and medium: 16p
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/432548
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008547729705181
Collection group(s): Quaker Collection
Description
Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Smith and Evans.
Also issued as the sixth title in: A Collection of devotional tracts.. [Philadelphia, 176-?] (not in Evans).
Two states of the title page noted. In the first, the title ends "1758"; the second ends "1748".
"The uncertainty of a death-bed repentance, illustrated under the character of Penitens."--p. [12]-16, attributed to François Fénelon.
Indexed in: Smith I,240; Evans 8542; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1658
Additional description
Bound in volume containing: 1. Bromley, Thomas. The way to the Sabbath of rest -- 2. Benezet, Anthony. Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of negroes. MS. notes in an 18th-century hand on front and back endpapers. Name "Martha Petel's" on title-page
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