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Title:Early American abolitionists : a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820 / general editor, James G. Basker ; associate editors Justine Ahlstrom [and others].
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ISBN:1932821066
9781932821062
9781932821369
1932821368
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Published/Created:New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005.
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Physical Description:xvi, 372 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm
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Links:Table of contents
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Local Notes:BEIN JWJ Zan2 2005 Ea761: From the Robert B. Stepto papers.
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Variant and related titles:Poetical epistle to the enslaved Africans : in the character of an ancient negro, born a slave in Pennsylvania ; but liberated some years since, and instructed in useful learning, and the great truths of Christianity : with a brief historical introduction, and biographical notices of some of the earliest advocated for that oppressed class of our fellow-creatures / edited by Joseph Sansom.
Three anti-slavery woman writers: the African chief and an excerpt from Beacon Hill by Sarah Wentworth Apthorp Morton; On slavery by Isabella Oliver Sharp; and An address to the inhabitants of Charleston, South Carolina by Ann Alexander / edited by Kathryn Gin.
American in Algiers, or, The patriot of seventy-six in captivity : a poem in two cantos / edited by Micah Guster.
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Other formats:Online version: Early American abolitionists. New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005
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BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents:1. Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes / by Anthony Benezet. -- 2. Mite cast into the treasury, or, Observations on slave-keeping / by David Cooper. -- 3. Serious address to the rulers of America on the inconsistency of their conduct respecting slavery / by David Cooper. -- 4. Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. -- 5. Poetical epistle to the enslaved Africans / by Joseph Sansom. -- 6. Injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans / by Jonathan Edwards. -- 7. Three anti-slavery women writers. -- 8. Minutes of the proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States. -- 9. American in Algiers, or, The patriot of seventy-six in captivity / [anonymous]. -- 10. Oration on the abolition of the slave trade / by Henry Sipkins. -- 11. Letters from A man of colour on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / by James Forten. -- 12. Papers relative to the restriction of slavery / by Rufus King.
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Subjects:Antislavery movements--United States.
Abolitionists--United States.
Abolitionists.
Antislavery movements.
United States.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Stepto, Robert B.--Ownership.
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Also listed under:Basker, James G.
Ahlstrom, Justine.
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784. 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 1758 / edited by Thomas Wolf.
Cooper, David, 1725-1795. Mite cast into the treasury, or, Observations on slave-keeping / edited by Kristin DeBusk.
Cooper, David, 1725-1795. 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 / edited by Rebecca Miller.
Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801. Injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans : illustrated in a sermon preached before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and for the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage, at their annual meeting in New-Haven, Sept. 15, 1791 / edited by Sarah Gamertsfelder.
Sipkins, Henry. Oration on the abolition of the slave trade : delivered in the African church in the city of New York, January 2, 1809 / edited by Laura Ferguson.
Forten, James, 1766-1842. Letters from A man of colour on a late bill before the Senate of Pennsylvania / edited by Nicolas Osborne.
King, Rufus, 1755-1827. Papers relative to the restriction of slavery : speeches of Mr. King, in the Senate, and of Messrs. Taylor & Talmadge in the House of Representatives, of the United States, on the bill for authorising the people of the territory of Missouri to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of the same into the Union : in the session of 1818-19, with a report of a committee of the Abolition Society of Delaware / edited by Eric C. Steinhart.
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery. Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery : and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage ... To which are added the Acts of the General assembly of Pennsylvania for the gradual abolition of slavery / edited by Sam Rosenfeld.
Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States. Minutes of the proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States : assembled at Philadelphia, on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and continued, by adjournments, until the seventh day of the same month, inclusive / edited by Jennifer Randazzo.
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