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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 several authors [by Anthony Benezet], in order to shew the iniquity of that rade and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication ; with a quotation from George Wallis's [i.e., Wallace's] System of the laws, &c., and a large extract from a pamphlet, lately published in London on the subject of the slave trade.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.
- Series:
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world.
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part II: Slave trade in the Atlantic world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- 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 (56 p.)
- Edition:
- [1st ed.].
- Other Title:
- Short account of that part of Africa inhabited by the Negroes
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed, 1762.
- Notes:
- "This is the first edition and was probably printed by William Dunlap for James Rivington, who advertizes it for sale in the Pa. Gazette, Feb. 11, 1762." Cf. Hildeburn and ESTC W3464.
- "The author of the 'Dialogues on the man-trade' concludes with the following address to the Guiney[i.e., Guinea] merchants in England"--p. 47-50; p. 50 signed: "J. Philmore."
- Reproduction of the original from the Yale University Libraries.
- Contains:
- Philmore, J. Two dialogues on the man-trade. Selections.
- OCLC:
- 228669151
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