Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
At a meeting held for the purpose of taking the slave trade into consideration : resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting, that the slave trade is both impolitic and unjust ...
Call Number
EX Lapidus 4.17 and 4.17a
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/765372098
Publisher
[London : s.n., 1787]
Language
English
Date Created
1792
Extent
[4] p. (last p. blank) ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Source Acquisition
Ex copy: Gift: Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959, 2010.
References
ESTC N472648
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Title from caption title and opening lines of text.
Title preceded by date: London, May the 22d, 1787.
Page [1] begins: Encouraged by the success which has attended the publication of sundry tracts against slavery, a number of persons have formed themselves into a society ...
At bottom of p. [2] to p. [3]: List of the present subscribers.
List printed in three columns divided by single ruled lines.
Note at foot: N. B. The Subscriptions of such as are disposed to contribute towards carrying on the Design of this Society, will be received by the Treasurer, or by any Member of the Committee.
From the 1st meeting of the Society. Cf. Wilberforce, R.I. Wilberforce, v. 1, p. 151.

Discovery Information

Subject
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade
Slavery—Great Britain—Anti-slavery movements
Slave trade—Great Britain

Physical Characteristics

File Count
4

Institutional Information

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

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/3a38568b-0fa4-42b0-aef5-e300a376f9f3/manifest