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A serious address to the rulers of America on the inconsistency of their conduct respecting slavery : forming a contrast between the encroachments of England on American liberty, and, American injustice in tolerating slavery.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, David, 1725-1795.
- Series:
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part III: The institution of slavery.
- Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive: Part III: The institution of slavery
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--United States--Early works to 1800.
- Slavery.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (22 p.).
- Other Title:
- Serious address to the rulers of America
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton : Printed by I. Collins, 1783.
- Notes:
- Signed (p. 22): "A farmer. February, 1783."
- By David Cooper; authorship " ... is mentioned in ... [his manuscript] diary under 1783." Cf. Quaker bibliographical notes, by H. J. Cadbury. (In Bulletin of Friends' historical association. 1937, v. 26, no. 1. p. 45-48).
- Attributed to Anthony Benezet by both Sabin and Evans.
- Reproduction of the original from the Boston Public Library.
- "As for me, I will assuredly contend for full and impartial liberty, whether my labour may be successful or vain."
- OCLC:
- 822973759
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