The case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the legislature of Great-Britain, by the people called Quakers.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)

Contributor:

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18353.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Great Britain.

Slave trade--Great Britain.

Slave trade.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Physical Description:

13 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (8vo)

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Other Title:

Case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans.

Case of the oppressed Africans.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets., MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Notes:

A petition to Parliament from the London Yearly Meeting of 1783 and the London Meeting for Sufferings, Nov. 11, 1783.

"Case of the oppressed Africans," p. [7-13]; "Signed by order of the Meeting for Sufferings, London, the 28th day of the eleventh month, 1783, by John Ady, clerk to the meeting." Attributed to Anthony Benezet in: Brooks, G.S. Friend Anthony Benezet, 1937. Brooks attributes "The case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans" to Benezet as well.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [14-16].

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 18353).

Cited in:

Evans 18353

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4445

OCLC:

55814002