The committee to whom was referred the several petitions of the Quakers of New-England, of the Providence Society for the Abolition of the Slave-Trade, and the petition from the delegates of the several societies for the same purpose, in convention assembled in Philadelphia, in January, 1794. Report as followeth
Subtitle: ..
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26532; Early American imprints -- no. 27904
Publisher: Printed by Childs and Swaine?
Published: 1794
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Society of Friends; Antislavery movements; Slave trade; Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave-Trade; Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies Established in Different Parts of the United States (1st : 1794 : Philadelphia, Pa.).
Other titles: Committee to whom was referred the several petitions of the Quakers in New-England ...
Notes: "Monday, January 17 ... The House ... resolved itself into a committee of the whole House, on the report of the committee to whom were referred the memorials of the people called Quakers ..."--Journal of the first session of the third Congress (Philadelphia, 1793 [i.e., 1794]), p. 131-132.

An act to prohibit the carrying on the slave-trade from the United States passed the House of Representatives on March 7, 1794, and was enacted into law on March 22; cf. Evans 27839.

Francis Childs and John Swaine were printers to the Congress in 1794.

Recorded twice by Evans, the first entry under the heading "Abolition Societies in the United States," and suggesting Zachariah Poulson as printer.

Printed area measures 21.3 x 13.0 cm.

Evans 26532

Evans 27904