The American museum, or, Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, prose and poetical. Volume VI.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Samuel Stanhope, 1750-1819.

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery.

Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)

Series:

American history, 1493-1945.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress.

Slavery--United States--Early works to 1800.

Slavery.

African Americans.

Enslaved persons.

Social conditions.

United States.

Enslaved persons--United States--Social conditions--Early works to 1800.

African Americans--Early works to 1800.

United States--Politics and government--1783-1789.

Politics and government.

United States. Congress--(1st, 1st session : 1789).

United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (492, 46 pages, 6 unnumbered pages)

Other Title:

Repository of ancient and modern fugitive pieces, prose and poetical. Volume VI

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed by Mathew Carey, 1789.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Includes 20 articles on African Americans, among them Samuel Stanhope Smith's "Essay of the causes of the variety of complexion and figure in the human species" and Benjamin Franklin's "Address to the public from the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the Relief of Free Negroes, Unlawfully Held in Bondage".

Notes:

Proceedings of Congress [May 19-Sept. 2, 1789]: 46 pages (2nd sequence)

Includes index.

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, England : Adam Matthew Digital, c2014. (American history, 1493-1945. Module 1, Settlement, commerce, revolution and reform, 1493-1859)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.