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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection
Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection
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Description
Collection of rare books and other printed material on the Atlantic slave trade, donated by Ruth and Sid Lapidus.
Dates / Origin
Date Created:
1685 - 1862
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: SCM Rare Lapidus Collection
Topics
Slavery
Slave trade
Abolitionists
African Americans
Blacks
Enslaved persons
Abolition movement
Freed persons
Society of Friends
Quakers
United States
West Indies
Great Britain
France
Antislavery movements
Great Britain
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Colonies
France
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Colonies
Genres
Correspondence
Legal memorandums
Administrative acts
Notes
Acquisition: Gift of Sidney Lapidus, 2015.
Type of Resource
Text
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7b25ca60-9d2e-0133-44f8-00505686a51c
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Blacks
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Enslaved persons
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Slave trade
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Slavery
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African Americans
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Great Britain. Parliament
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Royal African Company
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France. Conseil d'État
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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France. Convention nationale
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Sidney Lapidus Slavery and Abolition Collection
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Great Britain
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Africa
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France
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United States
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Africa, West
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Administrative acts
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Documents
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Correspondence
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Essays
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Pamphlets
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publisher
De l'Imprimerie royale
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Printed by George Eyre and Andrew Strahan, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty
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printed by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode, printers to the King's most Excellent Majesty
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Chez Delay
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Chez Garnery, Libraire
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Schomburg Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
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