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A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated : [Four lines of Scripture texts]

Title: A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated : [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Author: Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803.
Publication: [New York] : Norwich: Printed by Judah P. Spooner, 1776. New-York: Re-printed for Robert Hodge., M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KD 1785 (Hopkins, S. Dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Sc Rare 326.4-H (Hopkins, S. Dialogue concerning the slavery)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Not available - Please for assistance.	Text	Restricted use	Sc Rare 326.4-H (Hopkins, S. Dialogue concerning the slavery)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc Rare B 15-19 (Lapidus Collection)	Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Additional Authors

Hodge, Robert, 1746?-1813

Description

72 p.; 18 cm. (12mo)

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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Genre/Form

Booksellers' advertisements – New York (State) – New York.
Inscriptions (Provenance)

Note

Attributed to Samuel Hopkins in Dexter's Yale graduates.
Signatures: A-F⁶.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. 72.
"Appendix to the second edition of the Dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans."--p. 69-71.

Indexed In (note)

English short title catalogue
Evans, C. American bibliography
Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906
Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time

Source (note)

of Sidney Lapidus;

Provenance (note)

inscribed: in ink on p. 72 "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.
Copy in Sc Rare B 15-19 (Lapidus Collection): Gilpin library of the historical society of Pennsylvania bookplate, on upper pastedown ; in graphite, on upper free end leaf, "Samuel Hopkins."

Binding (note)

Copy in Sc Rare B 15-19 (Lapidus Collection) bound in green half bound leather with decorative paper boards.

Call Number

Sc Rare 326.4-H (Hopkins, S. Dialogue concerning the slavery)

LCCN

20012593

OCLC

5516588
NYPGR5516588-B

Author

Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803.

Title

A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated : [Four lines of Scripture texts]

Imprint

[New York] : Norwich: Printed by Judah P. Spooner, 1776. New-York: Re-printed for Robert Hodge., M,DCC,LXXXV. [1785]

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue W37936

Evans, C. American bibliography 19044

Library Company of Philadelphia. Afro-Americana, 1553-1906 4949

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time 32948

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 326.4-H (copy 1) (accession no. B992018) inscribed: in ink on p. 72 "A.A. Schomburg." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Copy in Sc Rare B 15-19 (Lapidus Collection): Gilpin library of the historical society of Pennsylvania bookplate, on upper pastedown ; in graphite, on upper free end leaf, "Samuel Hopkins."

Binding