The negro's friend, or, The Sheffield anti-slavery album..
Roberts, Samuel,1763-1848.
Blackwell, J.(John),printer.
Blackwell, J.(John),publisher.
Gales, Anne,1767-1838,publisher.
Wright, J. A.,illustrator.
Mitchell, James,1791-1852,engraver.
Fenner, Rest,engraver.
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,publisher.
Sheffield: : Printed and sold by J. Blackwell, High Street, and Miss Gales, Hartshead; also, by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, London; and all booksellers.,
1826..
First edition: a mixture of prose and verse against slavery, "edited by two members of the Sheffield Anti-Slavery Committee". Samuel Roberts (1763-1848), first of a dynasty of politically-involved Samuel Robertses, wrote most of the content. His close friend the Scottish poet James Montgomery (1771-1854), editor of the "Sheffield Iris", at whose press the book was printed, contributed a poem Zembo and Nila (pp. 53-58), signed 'J.M', and probably also the preface to the letters of "Mahmadee and Sandanee" (pp. 185-186). Montgomery had already published his own "Poems on the Abolition of the Slave Trade" (1809). The other member of the committee involved seems to have been John Holland.
In prose and verse.
Engraved frontispiece signed: J. A. Wright del., J. Mitchell Sculp.
Engraved plate facing p. 65 signed: Fenner Sc. Pater Noster Row.
Antislavery movements.
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