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Total number of records: 149

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slavery136
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Society of Friends11
Woolman, John (1720-1772)10
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Roberts, Samuel (1763-1848)7
Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784)6
Clarkson, Thomas (1760-1846)5
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Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-17975
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British colonial slavery : The following documents, copies of which have been transmitted to each member of the legislature, are submitted to the consideration of the British public

Acting Committee of West India Planters and Merchants

[1833]

Caption title. Caption title p. [5]: The origin and progress of West India slavery. Dated: London, March, 1833. Issued by the Acting Committee of West India Planters and Merchants.

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Opinions of Henry Brougham, esq. on negro slavery

Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham Baron (1778-1868)

1830

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A caution to Great Britain and her colonies, in a short representation of the calamitous state of the enslaved negroes in the British dominions

Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784)

1785

Attached to title-page is a printed covering slip for "the inclosed tract".

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Short observations on slavery, introductory to some extracts from the writing of the Abbé Raynal, on that important subject

Benezet, Anthony (1713-1784); Raynal abbé (1713-1796)

[1781]

Author statement given in the text (p. 11) as: "The writer of the foregoing introduction, i.e. A. Benezet,..." Caption title. Includes extract from: A philosophical and political history of the se...

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Slavery

Hughes, Kenneth (1936-)

1975

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Slavery

Hughes, Kenneth (1936-)

1975

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A winter in the West Indies : described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky

Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847)

1840

Advertisements for Gurney's other works on final 4 pages.

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A winter in the West Indies, described in familiar letters to Henry Clay, of Kentucky

Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847)

1840

Advertisements for Gurney's other works on 2 pages at end, followed by publisher's catalogue (8p).

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The works of John Woolman : in two parts

Woolman, John (1720-1772)

1775

Contents: v. 1. The testimony of Friends in Yorkshire, at their Quarterly-meeting held at York the 24th and 25th of the third month, 1773; concerning John Woolman -- A testimony of the Monthly-meeting...

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The history and topography of the United States (v.1)

Hinton, John Howard (1791-1873)

1830

With engraved illustrated title-pages, signed at foot: Engraved and printed by Fenner Sears & Co. Vol. 2 has imprint: London, published by Simpkin & Marshall, and Thomas Wardle, Philadelphia. June 1...

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