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On the slave trade [by Benjamin Franklin].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
- 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):
- United States. Congress--Early works to 1800.
- United States.
- Slave trade--Early works to 1800.
- Slave trade.
- Slavery--Early works to 1800.
- Slavery.
- Antislavery movements--United States--Early works to 1800.
- Antislavery movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource ([1] p.)
- Place of Publication:
- [London : Printed by Darton and Harvey, 1792]
- Notes:
- Title from caption.
- Signed at end: Historicus.
- "One of the last public acts of Dr. Franklin's life was subscribing a petition to the American Congress for the abolition of the slave trade, as President of the Pennsylvania Society instituted for effecting that purpose. About three weeks before his death, he wrote the following paper, in allusion to the debates which ensued upon the subject." Paper dated March 23[r]d, 1790].
- Reproduction of the original from the Library of the Society of Friends. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.
- Imprint information from colophon.
- Two columns to the page.
- OCLC:
- 607370258
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