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A short account of that part of Africa, inhabited by the negroes. : With respect to the fertility of the country, the good disposition of many of the natives, and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on. Extracted from divers authors, in order to shew the iniquity of that trade, and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication. With quotations from the writings of several persons of note, viz. George Wallis, Francis Hutcheson, and James Foster, and a large extract from a pamphlet, lately published in London, on the subject of the slave trade

by: Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

Publication date: 1768

Topics: Slave trade -- Africa, Blacks, Africa, West -- Description and travel

Publisher: Philadelphia : Printed by W. Dunlap, in the year MDCCLXII. ; London : Reprinted by W. Baker and J.W. Galabin, no. 19, Cullum-Street, MDCCLXVIII. And sold by R. Horsfield in Ludgate-Street, B. White in Fleet-Street, and J. Allix in Glanville-Street, Rathbone-Place.

Collection: JohnCarterBrownLibrary; americana; globallibraries

Contributor: John Carter Brown Library

Language: English

80 p. ; 22 cm. (8vo)

Author's name from Kress Lib

Originally published Philadelphia, 1762

Third edition published Philadelphia, 1763. The present edition hence is incorrectly marked as: "The third edition" (it should have been: "The fourth edition")

Signatures: A-K⁴ (A1 verso blank)

Includes: "Extracts from a pamphlet, intituled, Two dialogues on the man-trade. Printed in London, in the year 1760." (p. 37-63; signed at end: J. Philmore.). -- "Extract of a voyage to the coast of Guinea for slaves, &c. in a vessel from Liverpool, Robert Law, master, taken verbatim from the original manuscript of the surgeon's journal, viz. (p. 69-70, footnotes)

Contains references to the West Indies and North Amnerica