Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Contributors: Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed by Phillips & Fardon
Published: 1806
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: Slave trade; Colonies; Slavery; Law and legislation; Antislavery movements
Description: A report on the passage of a bill in Parliament prohibiting the slave trade.
Notes: Title from caption.

Signed (p. 3): "By order of the Committee, Granville Sharp, London, 30th July, 1806."

Text begins: "The Committee of the Society for effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, have the satisfaction of being able to acquaint the friends of this cause, that a considerable check has at length been given to that Traffick in Human Flesh and Blood."

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.