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A short account of that part of Africa inhabited by the Negroes with respect to the fertility of the country, the good disposition of many of the natives and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on / extracted from divers authors in order to shew the iniquity of that trade and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.
- Series:
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition.
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part I: Debates over slavery and abolition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Africa--Early works to 1800.
- Slavery.
- Slave trade--Africa--Early works to 1800.
- Slave trade.
- Africa, West--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Africa, West.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (80 p. )
- Edition:
- 2nd ed. / with large additions and amendments.
- Other Title:
- Short account of that part of Africa inhabited by the Negroes
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by W. Dunlap, 1762.
- Notes:
- "With quotations from the writings of several persons on note, viz. George Wallis [i.e. Wallace], Francis Hutcheson and James Foster, and a large extract from a pamphlet lately published in London, on the subject of the slave trade.
- Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Halkett & Laing.
- "Extracts from a pamphlet, intituled, Two dialogues on the man-trade. Printed in London, in the year 1760"--p. 37-63, signed: "J. Philmore."
- Errata on p. 80.
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of the Society of Friends. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
- Contains:
- Philmore, J. Two dialogues on the man-trade.
- OCLC:
- 505798135
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