An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African, translated from a Latin dissertation, which was honoured with the first prize in the University of Cambridge, for the year 1785, with additions. [One line from Livy]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarkson, Thomas, 1760-1846 2397

Contributor:

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, former owner.

Athenaeum of Philadelphia, former owner.

Duane, William, 1760-1835, former owner.

Dufief, N. G. 1776?-1834, bookseller.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xix,[2],22-155,[1]p. ; 8°.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : London, printed: Philadelphia: re-printed by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Notes:

Attributed to Clarkson in the Dictionary of national biography.

Dedicated to William Charles Colyear.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [156].

Local Notes:

HSP in LCP.

Historical Society copy Af. 329.5: Benjamin Franklin's copy.

Historical Society copy Af. 329.5: Bound with Leland, Love, q.v.; item 5 in volume. Modern half sheep; bound with other tracts. MS table of contents in modern hand bound in front; purchased from Dufief, 1801- 03, by Col. William Duane; sold by him in 1822 to the Athenaeum of Philadelphia; sold in turn by it, 22 December 1885, to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Cited in:

Evans 19561

Lib. Company. Afro-Americana, 2382