Volume: BINNS VOL. 23
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A second address to the right reverend the prelates of England and Wales, on the subject of the slave trade (London 1795)A plea to the bishops of England to condemn the slave trade and to encourage their parishioners to do the same: ‘It is therefore particularly to be wished that your lordships… Keep reading
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Unknown | 1795 | 11 |
An account of the emancipation of the slaves of Unity Valley Pen, in Jamaica, by David Barclay (London 1801)An account of David and John Barclay, who emancipated 32 slaves from a property they had in Jamaica – two were manumitted in Jamaica, and the rest were sent to Philadelphia under… Keep reading
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BARCLAY (David) | 1801 | 11 |
An address to the inhabitants of the British Settlements in America upon slave keeping (Philadelphia 1773)A condemnation of slavery in America, attacking the arguments used to support it:
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Unknown | 1773 | 17 |
Effects of slavery on morals and industry, by Noah Webster Esq. counsellor at law and member of the Connecticut society for the promotion of freedom (Hartford, Conn. 1793)American anti slavery tract examining the effects of slavery on Africans and Europeans, but calling for a gradual abolition.
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WEBSTER (Noah) | 1795 | 29 |
From the National Intelligencer, an American paper, announcing the death of Paul Cuffee (September 1817)Died, at Westport…Paul Cuffee, a very respectable man of colour…a descendant of Africa he overcame, by native strength of mind and firm adherence to principle, the prejudice with which her descendants are… Keep reading
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Unknown | 1817 | 1 |
No Rum! No Sugar! or The Voice of Blood, being half an hour’s conversation between an Negro and an English gentleman, showing the horrible nature of the slave trade and pointing out an easy and effectual method of terminating it, by an act of the people (London 1792)A short play showing an imagined conversation between an Englishman and an enslaved African, who educates the Englishman on the evils of slavery: Cushoo: Ah! Massa buckra, pity poor Negroman… Keep reading
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Unknown | 1792 | 12 |
Short observations on slavery; introductory to some extracts from the writing of the Abbe Raynal, on that important subject (date unknown) |
BENEZET (Anthony) | 1770 | 7 |
Substance of the report delivered by the court of directors of the Sierra Leone company to the general court of proprietors on Thursday 24th March 1794 (London 1794) engraving of plan of Sierra Leone attachedProgress report of the settlement in Sierra Leone of free Africans and whites, giving a historical account of the colony, the trade, expenditure, cultivation of the land, relationships with the chiefs and… Keep reading
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Unknown | 1794 | 88 |
Substance of the report delivered by the Court of Directors of the Sierra Leone Company to the general court of proprietors on Thursday 24th march 1808 (London 1808)Notice of the transfer of the colony from the company to the Crown, and the appointment of a new governor, details of new treaties made with neighbouring chiefs, progress reports of young… Keep reading
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Unknown | 1808 | 9 |
The evidence delivered on the petition presented by the West-India planters to the House of Commons, as was introduced at the bar, and summed up by Mr Glover (London 1775)Evidence presented in Parliament by the West India planters showing the consequences to the sugar markets if the British American colonies refuse to export certain merchandise to the West Indies, which would… Keep reading
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GLOVER (R.) | 1775 | 49 |
The just limitation of slavery in the Laws of God, compared with the unbounded claims of the African traders and British American slaveholders, by Granville Sharp, with a copious appendix (London 1776)Sharp’s responses to the supporters of the trade who use the scriptures as justification – he uses the same passages to reject their arguments: ‘The Ethiopians or Negroes received the Christian… Keep reading
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SHARP (Granville) | 1776 | 92 |