Research Catalog

Title

The Enormity of the slave-trade ; and the duty of seeking the moral and spiritual elevation of the colored race / Speeches of Wilberforce, and other documents and records.

Publication

150 Nassau-Street, New York : Published by the American Tract Society, [1846?]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
• Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.
• Young, John Clarke, 1803-1857.
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
• American Tract Society, publisher.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
• Department of Negro literature and History (Harlem, New York, N.Y.), bookplate.

Description

144 pages; 16 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subject

• Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833
• Slave trade
• Enslaved persons > Emancipation
• Slave trade > Great Britain
• Slavery and the church
• Enslaved persons > United States > Social conditions
• Slavery and the church > Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A
• Slavery > United States > Controversial literature
• Enslaved persons
• Enslaved persons > Social conditions
• Slavery > Controversial literature
• Slavery
• United States
• Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In (note)

• Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
• Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Contents

Mr. Wilberforce's speech, 1789, on his motion in parliament for the abolition of the slave-trade -- Mr. Wilberforce's speech, 1791 -- Mr. Fox's speech, 1791 -- Mr. Clarkson's summary view -- The bill passed, abolishing the trade -- Unanimous action of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, 1818 -- The substance of the plan of a Committee of the Synod of Kentucky for the instruction and emancipation of their slaves, 1835 -- Rev. Dr. Young's Duties of masters, a sermon preached in Danville, Kentucky, in 1846.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-E (The Enormity of the slave-trade)

OCLC

2716357

Title

The Enormity of the slave-trade ; and the duty of seeking the moral and spiritual elevation of the colored race / Speeches of Wilberforce, and other documents and records.

Publisher

150 Nassau-Street, New York : Published by the American Tract Society, [1846?]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Indexed In:

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906, 3498

Hogg, P.C. African slave trade and its suppression, 2844.

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 22630

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 3, page 2267, column 1, row 3-4

Local Note

The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has two copies of the book; Copy 1 in Sc Rare 326.1-E (accession no. B389747) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," and NYPL's perforated stamp. Imperfect: bound in hunter green cloth over boards, library binding, and gilt spine.

Copy 2 in Sc Rare 326.1-E (accession B884024) was originally part of the 135 Street Branch's Circulation Department. Probably added or transferred to the Schomburg collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection"; & a stamp of: "Department of Negro Literature and History

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Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.

Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806.

Young, John Clarke, 1803-1857.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.

American Tract Society, publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Department of Negro literature and History (Harlem, New York, N.Y.), bookplate.

Latimer, Catherine, 1896-1948 curator.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Other Form:

Online version: Enormity of the slave-trade ; and the duty of seeking the moral and spiritual elevation of the colored race. New York : American Tract Society, [1861?] (OCoLC)1144982970

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-E (The Enormity of the slave-trade)