On the slave trade
By: [by Benjamin Franklin]
Contributors: Historicus
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Printed by Darton and Harvey
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Slave trade; Slavery; Antislavery movements; United States. Congress; United States
Notes: Title from caption.

Signed at end: Historicus.

"One of the last public acts of Dr. Franklin's life was subscribing a petition to the American Congress for the abolition of the slave trade, as President of the Pennsylvania Society instituted for effecting that purpose. About three weeks before his death, he wrote the following paper, in allusion to the debates which ensued upon the subject." Paper dated March 23[r]d, 1790]

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