Abolition of the slave trade
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1814
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Slave trade; Antislavery movements; Treaty of Paris
Description: Includes the resolutions and "a copy of the petition which the meeting resolved to adopt.".
Notes: Title from caption.

Text begins: "At a most numerous and respectable meeting of the friends of the abolition of the slave trade, held at the Freemasons' Hall on Friday the 17th June, 1814 ... the following resolutions were unanimously adopted."

Meant to accompany a letter beginning "Sir, you will no doubt have seen, with feelings of disappointment and deep regret."

Reproduction of the original from the Library of the Society of Friends. Reproduced courtesy of World Microfilms Publications.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.