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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 ... [et al.].

Publication

New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005.

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Additional Authors

• Basker, James G.
• Ahlstrom, Justine
• Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.
• Cooper, David, 1725-1795.
• Edwards, Jonathan, 1745-1801.
• Sipkins, Henry
• Forten, James, 1766-1842.
• King, Rufus, 1755-1827.
• 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

Description

xvi 372 p. : facsims.; 24 cm.

Alternative Title

• 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.
• The American in Algiers, or, The patriot of seventy-six in captivity : a poem in two cantos / edited by Micah Guster.

Subjects

• Abolitionists > United States
• Antislavery movements > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

Sc E 06-518

ISBN

1932821066

OCLC

62205412

Title

Early American abolitionists : a collection of anti-slavery writings 1760-1820 / general editor, James G. Basker ; associate editors Justine Ahlstrom ... [et al.].

Imprint

New York : Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

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.

Added Title

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.

The American in Algiers, or, The patriot of seventy-six in captivity : a poem in two cantos / edited by Micah Guster.

Research Call Number

Sc E 06-518

IIR 05-6769