Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
The constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and the relief of free Negroes, unlawfully held in bondage : begun in the year 1774 and enlarged on the twenty-third of April 1787 : to which are added the acts of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania, for the gradual abolition of slavery.
Call Number
EX Lapidus 4.35
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/hd76s079w
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed by Joseph James ..., 1787.
Language
English
Date Created
1787
Extent
15, [1] p. ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 stamped on front cover and half title 'Presented by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, John W. Jordan, Librarian.' (Jordan was librarian between 1903 and 1921.)
Source Acquisition
Ex copy: Gift: Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2010.
References
ESTC W30521
Evans 20636
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁴.
Binding Note
Princeton copy 1 Contemporary blue gray wrappers.

Discovery Information

Subject
Slavery—Pennsylvania—Early works to 1800
Slavery—Law and legislation—Pennsylvania—Early works to 1800
Antislavery movements—Pennsylvania—Early works to 1800
Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery—Constitution

Physical Characteristics

File Count
24

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/1602dce0-e599-4f73-a4a4-66481ec6465b/manifest