Short Account of that Part of Africa, Inhabited by the Negroes
1762.
Item #8725
[BENEZET, ANTHONY]. A Short Account of that Part of Africa, Inhabited by the Negroes. With Respect to the Fertility of the Country; the good Disposition of many of the Natives, and the manner by which the Slave Trade is carried on ... in order to show the Iniquity of that Trade.... Philadelphia: W. Dunlap, 1762. 80 p. Removed from a bound volume. The usual scattered foxing inherent in early American paper, a short single worm trail in the blank fore-margin of the first several leaves, else a very good copy. Second edition, with large additions and amendments. One of the first anti-slavery tracts printed in America. Anthony Benezet was a Philadelphia Quaker and, along with John Woolman, one of America's first propagandists against the African slave trade. Evans 9067; ESTC W29401.
Price: $2,000.00