All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage
Subtitle: apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near; it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America. Written for general service.
Contributors: Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790, printer.; Harper, Nathan, former owner.; Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Printed for the author
Published: 1738
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Slavery -- United States -- Early works to 1800; Slavery and the church -- Society of Friends -- Early works to 1800; Antislavery movements -- United States -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: LC copy has paper book label on front paste-down, printed by J.F. Gilbert, Printer, Frankford: The property of Nathan Harper, Frankford; ink ownership inscription: Friends Library, Clear Creek, Putnam Co., Ill. No. 183.
Evans 4149
ESTC (RLIN) w009836
Miller, C.W.  Franklin, 134
Corrected date from p. 253: Abington, the 29th of the 3d mo. 1738.
Evans 4149 attributes printing to B. Franklin.
Signatures: A-2M⁴ (2M4 blank).
Errata: p. [7] at end.
LC copy lacks final blank leaf.