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An exposition of the African slave trade : from the year 1840, to 1850, inclusive

Title
An exposition of the African slave trade : from the year 1840, to 1850, inclusive / Prepared from official documents, and published by direction of the representatives of the Religious society of friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Author
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, issuing body.
Publication
  • Philadelphia : [Religious society of friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware], 1851.
  • Philadelphia : For sale at Friends' Book Store, no. 84 Mulberry Street, 1851.
  • Philadelphia : J. Rakestraw, printer, 1851.

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Additional Authors
  • Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860
  • Friends' Book Store (Philadelphia, Pa.), bookseller.
  • Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Description
160 pages; 23 cm
Donor/Sponsor
Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
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Bookplates (Provenance)
Note
  • "In the preparation of the following pages, we have relied for authority chiefly on the 'Slave Trade Papers, ' presented to both Houses of Parliament in Great Britain, and by them ordered to be published."--Page [3].
Indexed In (note)
  • New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available on digital format via NYPL Digital Collections, and various sites and databases.
Call Number
Sc Rare 326.1-F (Friends, Society of. Exposition of the African slave trade)
LCCN
01010159
OCLC
1945021
Author
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, issuing body.
Title
An exposition of the African slave trade : from the year 1840, to 1850, inclusive / Prepared from official documents, and published by direction of the representatives of the Religious society of friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Publisher
Philadelphia : [Religious society of friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware], 1851.
Distributor
Philadelphia : For sale at Friends' Book Store, no. 84 Mulberry Street, 1851.
Manufacturer
Philadelphia : J. Rakestraw, printer, 1851.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Indexed In:
New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 3, page 2792, column 1, row 4
Additional Formats
Also available on digital format via NYPL Digital Collections, and various sites and databases.
Local Note
The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy in Sc Rare 326.1-F (accession no. E097360) is a (September 25, 1945-- G.K. Halls, v. 3, page 27, column 1, row 4) addition to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer and Lawrence Reddick were the Collection Librarian & Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection," and the NYPL's perforated stamp. Imperfect: bound in hunter green cloth over boards, Library binding, and gilt spine.
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Place of Publication
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Added Author
Rakestraw, Joseph, 1780?-1860, printer.
Friends' Book Store (Philadelphia, Pa.), bookseller.
Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.
Other Form:
Online version: Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Exposition of the African slave trade. Philadelphia, J. Rakestraw, printer, 1851 (OCoLC)656742264
Research Call Number
Sc Rare 326.1-F (Friends, Society of. Exposition of the African slave trade)
SEKH (Friends, Society of. Exposition of the African slave trade)
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