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, in order to shew the iniquity of that trade, 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. [Seven lines of Scripture texts]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 880

Contributor:

Wallace, George, 1727-1805

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--80152.

Slavery.

Slave trade--Africa.

Slave trade.

Physical Description:

56p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : [s.n.], Printed in the year M,DCC,LXII. [1762]

Notes:

Attributed to Anthony Benezet by Evans and Hildeburn.

"This is the first edition, and was probably printed by William Dunlap for James Rivington, who advertises it for sale in the Pa. Gazette, Feb. 11, 1762"--Hildeburn.

"Two dialogues on the man-trade."--p. 28-50, signed: J. Philmore.

Erratum statement, p. 56.

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Cited in:

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 1074

Evans 9066; Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 1785