First Edition. 8vo. 18 leaves.
Halkett and Laing v, 290.
Sabin 55354.
Hildeburn 2931.
Ragatz 534.
Bound in brown buckram by the Library of Congress; badly waterstained; an uncut copy. Beside the words
A West-Indian on the title-page, Jefferson has written
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Nesbitt.
The author of the pamphlet to which this was a reply was Benjamin Rush, writing under the pseudonym
A Pennsylvanian.
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proceedings for the abolition of slavery.
iv.
Proceedings for the abolition of slavery.
London,
1789.
This tract has not been found; it may have been the Report of the Debate in the House of Commons, May 13, 1789.
2 leaves, folio.
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J. Adresse des amis des noirs par Claviere, with the plan of a slave ship.
4
to.
v. CLAVIERE,
Etienne.
Adresse de la Société des Amis des Noirs, a l’Assemblée Nationale, a toutes les Villes de Commerce, à toutes les Manufactures,
aux Colonies, à toutes les Sociétés des Amis de la Constitution; Adresse dans laquelle on approfondit les Relations politiques
et commerciales entre la Métropole et les Colonies, &c. Rédigée par E. Clavière, Membre de cette Société . . .
A
Paris: de
l’Imprimerie du Patriote François,
Mars 1791.
F1923 .S6
4to. 67 leaves: [ ]
1, a-b
2, A
2-4, B-N
4, O
3, P-Q
4, ends with the catchword
Table.
Quérard II, 221.
Sabin 13515.
Bissainthe 5140.
Bound in red buckram by the Library of Congress in 1915. Inserted at the end of this copy, probably by Jefferson, is a folded
engraved plan of a slave ship, with printed text, the imprint of James Phillips, London, 1789.
Etienne Claviere, 1735-1793, French financier and politician, a Genevan by birth, was a friend of Brissot de Warville, and closely associated
with him in the antislavery campaign.
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