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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.

Contributor:

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.

Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784, printer.

Society of Friends. London Yearly Meeting.

Arnold and Deanne Kaplan Collection of Early American Judaica (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Early works to 1800.

Slave trade.

Slavery--Early works to 1800.

Slavery.

Slavery and the church--Society of Friends--Early works to 1800.

Slavery and the church.

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Slavery and the church--Society of Friends.

Penn Provenance:

Kaplan, Arnold Harvey, 1939- (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Kaplan, Deanne (donor) (Kaplan Collection copy)

Physical Description:

16 pages ; 19 cm (8vo)

Edition:

Second edition.

Fingerprint:

lyto n.ds t.er scYo (3) 1760 (A)

Place of Publication:

Germantown : Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760.

Notes:

First edition, 1759.

"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 treatises 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, p. 447-448.

Two states of t.p. noted: in the first, the title ends "1758"; in the second, "1748" -- ESTC.

Signatures: )(⁸.

Local Notes:

Kaplan Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by Arnold and Deanne Kaplan.

Kaplan Collection copy bound with: Bromley, Thomas. The way to the sabbath of rest, Or, The soul's progress in the work of the new-birth. [Germantown, Pa.] : London printed. Germantown reprinted and sold by Christopher Sower, also sold by Solomon Fussell and Jonathan Zane in Philadelphia, 1759[-60] (Item 2 of 2)

Kaplan Collection copy collectify accession no. 2006.12.26.00770

Cited in:

ESTC W28713

Evans 8542

Smith, J. Friends' books, I:240

Kress Lib. 5828

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade, 1732

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 1071

Related Work:

Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715. Uncertainty of a death-bed repentance.

OCLC:

2032260