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Book/Printed Material Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes

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Title

  • Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748

Names

  • Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784
  • American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760.

Headings

  • -  Slave trade--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  First edition, 1759.
  • -  The uncertainity of a death-bed repentance, illustrated under the character of Penitens: p. [12]-16.
  • -  "Benezet...of a French family of St. Quentin, was driven from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Having fixed his residence in Philadelphia, he adopted the doctrine of the Quakers. His humanity impelled him to attempt an amelioration of the condition of both the Indians and Negroes,by publishing treaties exhibiting the unhappy state to which each had been reduced by the cupidity and neglect of the whites."--Field, Indian bibliography. cf. also A.S. Bolles, Pennsylvania, province and state, 1899, v.2, 447-448.
  • -  Evans 8542
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-08-14 update (3 cards)
  • -  LAC rwp 2019-08-21 review

Medium

  • 16 p. 19 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • HT991 .B5
  • HT991 .B5 Copy 2 Copy 2. Lacks p. 13-16.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 02010533

OCLC Number

  • 2032260

Online Format

  • pdf
  • online text
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Benezet, Anthony, and American Imprint Collection. Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year. Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/02010533/.

APA citation style:

Benezet, A. & American Imprint Collection. (1760) Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year. Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/02010533/.

MLA citation style:

Benezet, Anthony, and American Imprint Collection. Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year. Germantown: Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/02010533/>.