A preliminary essay on the oppression of the exiled sons of Africa
Subtitle: consisting of animadversions on the impolicy and barbarity of the deleterious commerce and subsequent slavery of the human species : to which is added, a desultory letter written to Napoleon Bonaparte, anno Domini 1801
By: by Thomas Branagan, late slave-trader from Africa and planter from Antigua ; who, from conscientious motives, relinquished a lucrative situation in the island, and now from a deep sense of duty, publishes to the world the tragical scenes, of which he was a daily spectator, and in which he was unhappily concerned
Contributors: Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826, former owner; Thomas Jefferson Library Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author by John W. Scott ...
Published: 1804
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Slavery; Slave trade
Notes: Signatures: [A]² B-2A⁶ 2B² chi1.

Errata: p. [3] at end.

Subscription proposal: p. [1-2] at end.

LC copy forms part of the Jefferson Exhibit Collection.

Sowerby, E.M.  Cat. of the lib. of Thomas Jefferson, 1394

Shaw & Shoemaker 5901

LC copy is Thomas Jefferson's, with his initials at signatures I and T. With the Library of Congress's 1815 bookplate.