129
Tracts on slavery, to wit, Peyroux sur l’etat primitif de l’homme le desir de l’immortalité et l’heroisme militaire--Mifflin’s
expostulñ--Nesbitt on slavery--proceedings for the abolition of slavery--Adresse des amis des noirs par Claviere, with the
plan of a slave ship.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 59. no. 135, Tracts on Slavery, to wit, Peyroux, Mifflin, Nesbitt, Abolition, Claviere, 4
to.
These five tracts were originally bound together for Jefferson in 1 volume, 4to. They have since been separated, rebound and
reclassified.
J. Peyroux sur l’etat primitif de l’homme le desir de l’immortalité et l’heroisme militaire.
i. [PEYROUX
de La COUDRENIERE.]
Lettres sur l’État primitif de l’Homme, jusqu’a la naissance de l’Esclavage; sur le Désir de l’Immortalité, et sur l’Héroisme
militaire. Par M. P. D. L. C.
A
Amsterdam, et se trouve à
Paris: chez la veuve
Ballard & Fils,
Mérigot, jeune,
m. dcc. lxxxiii
. [1783.]
CB301 .P4
First Edition. 8vo. 24 leaves: A-C
8.
Not in Barbier.
Sabin 61319.
Unbound and uncut. With the name
M. Peyroux de la Coudreniere written in ink by Jefferson on the title-page below the initials and with minor corrections by him on C
4.
For another edition see no. 1369.
[1378]
Mifflin’s expostulñ.
ii. MIFFLIN,
Warner.
A serious expostulation with the Members of the House of Representatives of the United States.
Philadelphia: Printed and sold by
Daniel Lawrence.
m. dcc. xciii
. [1793.]
E446 .M631
Sm. 8vo. 12 leaves: [ ]
8, B
4; signed at the end
Warner Mifflin and dated
Kent County, state of Delaware, 21st of the 1st Month, 1793.
Sabin 48897.
Evans 25821.
Smith, page 176.
Warner Mifflin, 1745-1798, Quaker reformer, was born in Virginia. He interested himself in the slave question, and having freed his own
slaves presented the anti-slavery case to the government in the above and other tracts. The Library of Congress has copies
of the other issues printed in this year, one in Philadelphia, without the name of the printer, and probably earlier, the
other a re-print by Spooner in New-Bedford; in the absence of other evidence the Lawrence imprint was selected as the most
likely to have been in the Jefferson collection, and, although definite evidence is missing, it is possible that this is the
actual copy sold by him to Congress.
[1379]
J. Nesbitt on slavery.
iii. [NISBET,
Richard.]
Slavery not forbidden by Scripture. Or a Defence of the West-India Planters, from the Aspersions thrown out against them,
by the Author of a pamphlet, entitled, “An Address to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America, upon Slave-keeping.”
By a West-Indian . . .
Philadelphia: Printed [by
John Sparhawk],
m,dcc,lxxiii
. [1773.]
E446 .R98
