Research Catalog

Title

Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes ; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748.

Author

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

Publication

• [Germantown, Pa.] : [Publisher not identified], 1760.
• Germantown : Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784
• London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

16 pages; 19 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Slave trade
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Early works
• Slave trade > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

• Early works.
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Bookplates (Provenance)

Note

• First edition, 1759.
• The uncertainity of a death-bed repentance, illustrated under the character of Penitens: p. [12]-16.

Bibliography (note)

• "Benezet ... of a French family of St. Quentin, was driven from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Having fixed his residence in Philadelphia, he adopted the doctrine of the Quakers. His humanity impelled him to attempt an amelioration of the condition of both the Indians and Negroes, by publishing treaties exhibiting the unhappy state to which each had been reduced by the cupidity and neglect of the whites."-Field, Indian bibliography. cf. also A.S. Bolles, Pennsylvania, province and state, 1899, v. 2, 447-448

Indexed In (note)

• Evans, C. American bibliography
• Bowe, F. List of additions and corrections to Early Catholic Americana
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on microfilm and digital format; the microform copy in Sc Micro R-6221; and the digital version via Readex or America's Historical Imprints/Evans, 1639-1800 & Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and anti-slavery databases.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-B (Benezet, A. Observations on the inslaving)

LCCN

02010533

OCLC

2032260

Author

Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784, author.

Title

Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes ; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748.

Publisher

[Germantown, Pa.] : [Publisher not identified], 1760.

Manufacturer

Germantown : Printed by Christopher Sower, 1760.

Edition

2nd edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

"Benezet ... of a French family of St. Quentin, was driven from France by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. Having fixed his residence in Philadelphia, he adopted the doctrine of the Quakers. His humanity impelled him to attempt an amelioration of the condition of both the Indians and Negroes, by publishing treaties exhibiting the unhappy state to which each had been reduced by the cupidity and neglect of the whites."-Field, Indian bibliography. cf. also A.S. Bolles, Pennsylvania, province and state, 1899, v. 2, 447-448

Indexed In:

Evans, C. American bibliography, 8542

Bowe, F. List of additions and corrections to Early Catholic Americana, 274

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 4676

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 848, column 3, row 2

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 1, page 848, column 3, row 3

Additional Formats

Also available on microfilm and digital format; the microform copy in Sc Micro R-6221; and the digital version via Readex or America's Historical Imprints/Evans, 1639-1800 & Gale Primary Sources: Slavery and anti-slavery databases.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division has three copies of this pamphlet. Copy 1 in Sc Rare 326.1-B (accession no. G80523) is a gift; added to the collection (July 11, 1935), according to G.K. Halls, v. 1, page 848, column 3, row 2; during Catherine A. Latimer & Arthur A. Schomburg's times as collection librarian & curator. It includes NYPL's perforated stamp and the "Schomburg Collection" stamp. Imperfect: disbound, incomplete, lacking pages 15-16. The pamphlet is currently encased in mylar and housed in a commercially made 4-flap archival binder.

Copy 2 in Sc Rare 326.1-B (accession no. E002116) is a (December 22, 1942-- G.K. Halls, v . 1, page 848, column 3, row 3) 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," NYPL's perforated stamp, and the "Star" stamp. Imperfect: bound in red cloth over boards, library binding, and gilt spine.

Copy in Sc Rare C 15-59 (Lapidus Collection) is part of the Lapidus Collection donated in 2015. It is inscribed: in ink on the title page, with manuscript correction of "1748" to "1758" in the title. Imperfect: unbound, currently encased in mylar and housed in an acid-free envelope.

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Place of Publication

United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Added Author

Sower, Christopher, 1721-1784, printer.

London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends)

Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, Curator.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 326.1-B (Benezet, A. Observations on the inslaving)

*KD 1760 (Benezet, A. Observations on the inslaving)

*KD 1759 (Bromley, T. Way to the sabbath of rest (Copy 2))

Sc Rare C 15-59 (Lapidus Collection)