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A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated

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Title

A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated

Date

1776

Extent

72 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Description

A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated. [2nd ed.]. [New York] : Norwich, printed by Judah P. Spooner, 1776, New-York, re-printed for Robert Hodge, 1785.

Attributed to Hopkins by Evans.

Signatures: A-F⁶.

"An address to the owners of Negro slaves, in the American colonies": pages [61]-69.

"Appendix to the second edition of the Dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans": pages 69-71.

Bookseller's advertisement, page 72.

Identifier

SCRB10046

Language

English

Bibliographic Citation

Evans, 19044
Sabin, 32948

Collection

Books and Pamphlets

Citation

Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803, “A dialogue concerning the slavery of the Africans : shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American states to emancipate all their African slaves : with an address to the owners of such slaves : dedicated to the Honourable the Continental Congress : to which is prefixed, the institution of the society, in New-York, for promoting the manumission of slaves, and protecting such of them as have been, or may be, liberated,” Special Collections, John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, accessed October 10, 2026, https://cwfjdrlsc.omeka.net/items/show/3833.