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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.

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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
London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) (Associated name)
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1760
Place: Germantown
Publisher: Printed by Christopher Sower
Edition: 2d. ed.
Library locations
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
Shelf locator: Sc Rare 326.1-B (Benezet, A. Observations on the inslaving) c.1
Topics
Slave trade
Genres
Pamphlets
Notes
Content: First edition, 1759
Content: The uncertainty of a death-bed repentance, illustrated under the character of Penitens: p. [12]-16
Physical Description
Extent: 16 p. ; 19 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11664105
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7226cc30-01c5-0135-c4b0-3c07547a230f
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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "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." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1760. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8b23-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "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." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 10, 2020. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8b23-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (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 1748. Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-8b23-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

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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.