The case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans, respectfully recommended to the serious consideration of the legislature of Great-Britain, by the people called Quakers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) 18065

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings 34472, Author.

Contributor:

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends). Meeting for Sufferings, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--Africa.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

13,[3]p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Notes:

A petition to Parliament from the London Yearly Meeting of 1783 and the London Meeting for Sufferings, Nov. 11, 1783.

"Case of the oppressed Africans," p. [7-13]; "Signed by order of the Meeting for Sufferings, London, the 28th day of the eleventh month, 1783, by John Ady, clerk to the meeting." Attributed to Anthony Benezet in: Brooks, G.S. Friend Anthony Benezet, 1937. Brooks attributes "The case of our fellow-creatures, the oppressed Africans" to Benezet as well.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [14-16].

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 1063

Evans 18353; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4445