BRITISH IMPRINT CONDEMNS SLAVEOWNING IN THE BRITISH
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BRITISH IMPRINT CONDEMNS SLAVEOWNING IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Excellent set of five colonial American imprints bound together, Philadephia, 1766-67, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4" and approx. 125 pages. Marbled paper on paper boards, worn, covers detached, a lady's 1777 ownership signature and notes on pastedowns. The imprints include: “The Emptiness and Vanity of A Life,” Philadelphia: Henry Miler, 1767. Evans 10609. “Daily Conversations with God,” Philadelphia: Miller, 1767. Evans 10659. “An Extract from a Treatise By William Law...” Philadelphia: Miller, 1766, [Daniel DeFoe]. Evans 10352. “The Dreadful Visitation ... Progress and Effects of the Plague, Philadelphia: Miller, 1767. Evans 10599. “A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies... A Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes...” By Anthony Benezet, Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, 1767. Lacking last four pages (not text), but contains the half-title. Evans 10555. The last text is a particularly telling anti-slavery tract, 52pp. in length: "...how many of those who distinguish themselve as the Advocates of Liberty , remain insensible and inattentive to the Treatment of Thousands and Tens of Thousands of our Fellow-Men...kept in the most Deplorable State of Slavery...Nothing could be more wretched than the Condition of this People...banished from their Country, and deprived of the Blessing Liberty..." with emotional first-hand accounts of the horors of the slave trade, warnings of divine retribution, etc. An interesting compendium of religious and spiritual views on political affairs of the 18th century.
Excellent set of five colonial American imprints bound together, Philadephia, 1766-67, 6 3/4" x 4 1/4" and approx. 125 pages. Marbled paper on paper boards, worn, covers detached, a lady's 1777 ownership signature and notes on pastedowns. The imprints include: “The Emptiness and Vanity of A Life,” Philadelphia: Henry Miler, 1767. Evans 10609. “Daily Conversations with God,” Philadelphia: Miller, 1767. Evans 10659. “An Extract from a Treatise By William Law...” Philadelphia: Miller, 1766, [Daniel DeFoe]. Evans 10352. “The Dreadful Visitation ... Progress and Effects of the Plague, Philadelphia: Miller, 1767. Evans 10599. “A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies... A Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes...” By Anthony Benezet, Philadelphia: Hall and Sellers, 1767. Lacking last four pages (not text), but contains the half-title. Evans 10555. The last text is a particularly telling anti-slavery tract, 52pp. in length: "...how many of those who distinguish themselve as the Advocates of Liberty , remain insensible and inattentive to the Treatment of Thousands and Tens of Thousands of our Fellow-Men...kept in the most Deplorable State of Slavery...Nothing could be more wretched than the Condition of this People...banished from their Country, and deprived of the Blessing Liberty..." with emotional first-hand accounts of the horors of the slave trade, warnings of divine retribution, etc. An interesting compendium of religious and spiritual views on political affairs of the 18th century.
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