Thoughts on the slavery of the negroes.
viii. [WOODS,
Joseph.]
Thoughts on the Slavery of the Negroes. The
Second Edition.
London: Printed and sold by
James Phillips.
m.dcc.lxxxv
. [1785.]
HT1091 .W6
20 leaves; publisher’s advertisement on the last page.
Halkett and Laing VI, 41.
Sabin 105126.
Smith II, 955.
Unbound.
Joseph Woods, of London, was a member of the Society of Friends. The first edition was published in 1784, and was without the Postscript
on the last four leaves of this edition.
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Serious address to the rulers of America on Slavery.
ix. [COOPER,
David.]
A 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 unjustice in tolerating Slavery . . .
Trenton printed:
London reprinted by
J. Phillips,
1783.
E446 .C74
12 leaves; signed at the end:
A Farmer. February 1783.
Halkett and Laing IV, 225 [by Anthony Benezet].
Sabin 79249 (anonymous). This edition not in Smith (other editions under Benezet, with a query).
Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association 1937, v. 26, no. 1, page 48.
David Cooper, 1724-1795, of Woodbury, New Jersey. An account of this work, and his authorship of it is given in his diary for 1783, quoted
in the
Bulletin of the Friends Historical Association, cited above. It was formerly attributed to Anthony Benezet, who was associated with its publication. The first edition was
printed in Trenton earlier in the same year.
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Discours sur l’etablissement d’un Societé a Paris sur l’esclavage.
x. [BRISSOT
de WARVILLE, Jacques Pierre.]
Discours sur la nécessité d’établir à Paris une Société pour concourir, avec celle de Londres, à l’abolition de la traite
& de l’esclavage des Nègres. Prononcé le 19 Février 1788, dans une Société de quelques amis, rassemblés à Paris à la prière
du Comité de Londres.
[
Paris,
1788.]
HT1178 .B7
First Edition. 16 leaves: sig. A-B
8, caption title.
Not in Barbier.
Not in Quérard.
Unbound, with the end marbled endpaper preserved.
On February 10, 1788, nine days before the date of this
Discours, Brissot de Warville wrote to Jefferson inviting him to be present at a meeting for the organization of the Society to be
held at the Maison de M. Claviere on the following Tuesday. The postscript informed Jefferson: “Vous verrez dans le dernier No. de l’analise des papiers Anglais, les details relatifs à cette Societé.”
Jefferson replied on the following day: “
I am very sensible of the honour you propose to me of becoming a member of the society for the abolition of the slave trade.
you know that nobody wishes more ardently to see an abolition not only of the trade but of the condition of slavery: and certainly
nobody will be more willing to encounter every sacrifice for that object. but the influence & information of the friends to
this proposition in France will be far above the need of my association. I am here as a public servant; and those whom I serve
having never yet been able to give their voice against this practice, it is decent for me to avoid too public a demonstration
of my wishes to see it abolished . . .
”
For a note on Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville, 1754-1793, see no. 299.
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