A short account of that part of Africa, inhabited by the negroes
Subtitle: With respect to the fertility of the country, the good disposition of many of the natives, and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on. Extracted from divers authors, in order to shew the iniquity of that trade, and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication. With quotations from the writings of several persons of note, viz. George Wallis, Francis Hutcheson, and James Foster, and a large extract from a pamphlet, lately published in London, on the subject of the slave trade
Edition: The third edition.
Publisher: Printed by W. Dunlap, in the year MDCCLXII.; Reprinted by W. Baker and J.W. Galabin, no. 19, Cullum-Street, MDCCLXVIII. And sold by R. Horsfield in Ludgate-Street, B. White in Fleet-Street, and J. Allix in Glanville-Street, Rathbone-Place.
Published: 1768
Place of publication: Philadelphia; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Slave trade; Description and travel; Blacks
Notes: Author's name from Kress Lib.

Originally published Philadelphia, 1762.

Third edition published Philadelphia, 1763. The present edition hence is incorrectly marked as: "The third edition"  (it should have been: "The fourth edition")

Signatures: A-K⁴ (A1 verso blank)

Includes: "Extracts from a pamphlet, intituled, Two dialogues on the man-trade. Printed in London, in the year 1760." (p. 37-63; signed at end: J. Philmore.). -- "Extract of a voyage to the coast of Guinea for slaves, &c. in a vessel from Liverpool, Robert Law, master, taken verbatim from the original manuscript of the surgeon's journal, viz. (p. 69-70, footnotes)

Contains references to the West Indies and North Amnerica.

Sabin 4687.

Smith, J.  Friends' books 1:241.

Kress Lib. 6524.

English short title catalogue T048074.