32 results filtered with: Slavery - Early works to 1800
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Observations on the inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the Yearly-Meeting of the people called Quakers, held at London in the year 1748. [Nine lines of Scripture texts]
Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784.Date: 1760- Books
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An address to the people of Great-Britain, on the propriety of abstaining from West-India sugar and rum. [Eight lines from Cowper's Negro's complaint]
Fox, William.Date: 1792- Books
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An extract from a treatise on the spirit of prayer, or The soul rising out of the vanity of time into the riches of eternity. With some thoughts on war: remarks on the nature and bad effects of the use of spirituous liquors. And considerations on slavery. [Twelve lines from Porteus]
Law, William, 1686-1761.Date: MDCCLXXX. [1780]- Books
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The law of passive obedience, or Christian submission to personal injuries: Wherein is shewn, that the several texts of scripture, which command the entire submission of servants or slaves to their masters, cannot authorize the latter to exact an involuntary servitude, nor, in the least degree, justify the claims of modern Slaveholders. By Granville Sharp.
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.Date: 1776?]- Books
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The Portsmouth grand humbug: or, A merry dialogue between the boatswain and his mate, on board the monarch man of war, relating to Admiral Byng, who is to be shot one time or other.
Date: [1757]- Books
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A speech made May 28, 1717. It being the anniversary-day of His Majesty's happy nativity. Before the Loyal Society, in Church-Street, St. Ann's. By George Waldron. Late of Queen's College, Oxon; and printed at the request of the said society.
Waldron, George, 1690-1730?.Date: Printed in the year 1717- Books
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An apology for slavery; or, six cogent arguments against the immediate abolition of the slave-trade.
Geddes, Alexander, 1737-1802.Date: 1792