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Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa : addressed to the people of Great-Britain
Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa : addressed to the people of Great-Britain / by the Right Hon. Lord Muncaster. London : Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly, MDCCXCII [1792].
"Price two shillings."--in square brackets on half-title.
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Considerations on the present situation of Great Britain and the United States of North America : with a view to their future commercial connections; particularly designed to expose ... a late pamphlet published by Lord Sheffield, entitled "Observations on the commerce of the American states"; likewise shewing the advantages ... of relaxing the Act of navigation in favour of America ...
Considerations on the present situation of Great Britain and the United States of North America : with a view to their future commercial connections; particularly designed to expose ... a late pamphlet published by Lord Sheffield, entitled "Observations on the commerce of the American states"; likewise shewing the advantages ... of relaxing the Act of navigation in favour of America ...London : Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly,MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
"Price two shillings and sixpence." on half-title.
Advertisements: page 157- page [1] at end.
Rockefeller Library copy from the library of James Strohn Copley with his bookplate.
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Scriptural researches on the licitness of the slave-trade : shewing its conformity with the principles of natural and revealed religion, delineated in the sacred writings of the word of God
Scriptural researches on the licitness of the slave-trade : shewing its conformity with the principles of natural and revealed religion, delineated in the sacred writings of the word of God / by the Rev. R. Harris. London : Printed for John Stockdale, opposite Burlington-house, Piccadilly, 1788.
Dedication: To the worshipful the Mayor, recorder, alderman, bailiffs, and loyal borough and corporation of Liverpool ...
Includes preface and advertisement: "It was the author's design ... to have concluded his researches with ... some Scriptural Directions for the proper treatment of Slaves ... but the shortness of the time ... having made it absolutely impossible ... he is obliged to offer it to the Public in its Present state."
Ms. notation on dedication page: Mr. Harris was a Spanish Jesuit who on the dissolution of the Society to which he belonged came to England & settled at Liverpool, where the merchants may be said to have bought him; for taking advantage of his extreme poverty they engaged him for a small sum of money in the following jejune blasphemy. They approved and circ ulated the work & afterward in the spirit of the slave trade they suffered the miserable author to starve to death, a wretched wharfinger in the very capital of their iniquitous traffic.