A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans
Subtitle: 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.
Contributors: Force, Peter, 1790-1868, former owner.; New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated.; American Imprint Collection (Library of Congress); Ebenezer Hazard Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: [2nd ed.]
Publisher: Norwich, printed by Judah P. Spooner, 1776, New-York, re-printed for Robert Hodge
Published: 1785
Place of publication: [New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been, or May Be Liberated.; Slavery -- United States -- Early works to 1800.; Slave trade -- United States -- Early works to 1800.; Slavery -- New York (N.Y.) -- Anti-slavery movements.
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Attributed to Hopkins by Evans.
Signatures: A-F⁶.
"An address to the owners of Negro slaves, in the American colonies": p. [61]-69.
"Appendix to the second edition of the Dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans": p. 69-71.
Bookseller's advertisement, p. 72.
With: Booth, Abraham. Commerce in the human species, and the enslaving of innocent persons, inimical to the laws of Moses and the Gospel of Christ. [Philadelphia] : London printed, Philadelphia re-printed and sold by Daniel Lawrence, 1792. Bound together subsequent to publication.
LC copy from the Peter Force collection, with his LC bookplate.
Evans 19044
Sabin 32948