The Committee of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade think it necessary to acquaint their friends that although they cannot contemplate without feelings of the deepest regret the unexpected and accidental failure of the attempt recently made in Parliament to put a period to this horrid traffic, yet they are far from being discouraged by that circumstance from perservering in their efforts

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Contributor:

Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.

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):

Slave trade--Great Britain.

Slave trade.

Antislavery movements--Great Britain.

Antislavery movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([1] p. )

Place of Publication:

[London] : Phillips & Fardon, printers, [1805]

Summary:

A letter addressing the failure of a bill to prohibit the slave trade to pass in the Parliament, and asking for further funds to continue the "measures for effecting this object."

Notes:

Title from beginning of letter.

Letter dated: "London, June 3, 1805."

Signed (p. [1]): "By order of the Committee, G. Sharp, chairman."

Reproduction of the original from the Library of the Society of Friends. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

OCLC:

607385445