The Just Limitation of Slavery in the Laws of God compared with the Unbounded Claims of the African Traders and British American Slaveholders.
London: Printed for B. White, in Fleet-Street, and E. and C. Dilly, in the Poultry, 1776. Hardcover. index, 67, [1[, 107, [3]p. (the final two pages contain advertisements for other writings by Sharp). Later utilitarian (library) cloth binding.19cm. Cover soiled and rather worn. Bottom of title-page has an old oval purple library stamp ("Association of the Bar Library City of New York"). Title-page pasted down (and almost completely split) along inner margin Text split between pages 106 and 107. The second part of the book has a separate title-page (Appendix (No. I.). An Essay on Slavery, Proving from Scripture Its Inconsistency with Humanity and Religion. Burlington, West Jersey, Printed, MDCCLXXIII.. London: reprinted 1776). An important book by a pioneering English abolitionist. OCLC has several listings which taken together identify a number of holdings, mostly English and European. There were at least seven American holdings (American Philosophical Society, Boston Public Library, Columbia, Harvard Business School, Huntington Library, Indiana and Michigan). Good. Item #88781
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