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A forensic dispute on the legality of enslaving the Africans, held at the public commencement in Cambridge, New-England, July 21st, 1773. By two candidates for the bachelor's degree.
Parsons, Theodore, 1751-1779.Date: MDCCLXXIII. [1773]- Books
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Report of the committee appointed to conduct the application of the inhabitants of Margate, for a system of police.
Margate (England)Date: 1785- Books
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The reformer reform'd, Being an address from Thomas Telltruth, Esq; to the reformer. With a defence of the manager of the Theatre-Royal, from groundless assertions.
Telltruth, Thomas.Date: 1747- Books
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An argument in the case of James Sommersett, a Negro. Wherein it is attempted to demonstrate the present unlawfulness of domestick slavery in England. To which is prefixed, a state of the case. By Mr. Hargrave, one of the counsel for the negro.
Sommersett, James.Date: 1788- Books
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An exhortation to those redeemed slaves, who came in a solemn procession to St. Pauls Cathedral, on the 11th of March 1701/2. to give thanks to God for their deliverance out of their captivity at Machaness. By W. Sherlock, D. D. Dean of St. Paul's.
Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.Date: 1702- Books
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An Epistle of caution and advice, concerning the buying and keeping of slaves.
Date: 1754- Books
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Letters to the gentlemen, clergy, and freeholders of the county of Dorset. By the Rev. John Toogood.
Toogood, John, 1742 or 1743-1824.Date: [1800?]- Books
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A merry new year's gift; or, the captain's letter to the colonel about the late election in Southwark.
Date: M.DCC.XII. [1712]- Books
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Ten minutes advice to the people of England, on the two slavery-bills intended to be bought into Parliament the present sessions. ...
Common Sense.Date: 1795]- Books
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The just limitation of slavery in the laws of God, compared with the unbounded claims of the African traders and British American slaveholders. By Granville Sharp. With a copious appendix: Containing, An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Thompson's Tract in favour of the African Slave Trade. - Letters concerning the lineal Descent of the Negroes from the Sons of Ham. - The Spanish Regulations for the gradual Enfranchisement of Slaves. - A Proposal on the same Principles for the gradual Enfranchisement of Slaves in America. - Reports of Determinations in the several Courts of Law against Slavery, &c.
Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813.Date: M.DCC.LXXVI. [1776]- Books
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Laws of the island of St. Christopher; from the year 1711, to the year 1791. Published by order of the Council and Assembly of the island, under the Inspection of a Committee of both Houses.
Saint Kitts.Date: MDCCXCI. [1791]- Books
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The address of Abraham Johnstone, a black man, who was hanged at Woodbury, in the county of Glocester, and state of New Jersey, on Saturday the the [sic] 8th day of July last; to the people of colour. To which is added his dying confession or declaration also, a copy of letter to his wife, written the day previous to his execution.
Johnstone, Abraham, -1797.Date: 1797- Books
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A letter to Philo Africanus, upon slavery; in answer to his of the 22d of November, in the General Evening Post; together with the opinions of Sir John Strange, and other eminent lawyers upon this subject, with the sentence of Lord Mansfield, in the case of Somerset and Knowles, 1772, With His Lordship's Explanation Of That Opinion In 1786.
Candidus.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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An address, & petition, to his Majesty, From Inhabitants of the Town and Neighbourhood of Sheffield. To which is added a letter to Mr. Walker, and a letter to the editor of the Sheffield Register.
Date: 1794- Books
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The famous prophesie of the white king and the dead man explain'd to the present times ... By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq;
Bickerstaff, Isaac.Date: [1710?]- Books
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An answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African; in a series of letters, from a gentleman in Jamaica, to his friend in London: wherein many of the mistakes and misrepresentations of Mr. Clarkson are pointed out, Both With Regard To The Manner in which that Commerce is carried on in Africa, And The Treatment of the Slaves in the West Indies. Shewing, At The Same Time, The Antiquity, Universality, and Lawfulness of Slavery, as as ever having been one of the States and Conditions of Mankind. By G. Francklyn, Esq.
Francklyn, Gilbert.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Essays historical and moral. By G. Gregory, F.A.S.
Gregory, G. (George), 1754-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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An essay on the martial character of nations: the means of impressing it; its utility; and its affections by form of government, climate, and other moral and physical causes.
Date: [1790?]- Books
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Le More-lack, ou essai sur les moyens les plus doux & les plus équitables d'abolir la traite & l'esclavage des nègres d'Afrique, en conservant aux colonies tous les avantages d'une population agricole.
Date: 1789- Books
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Fragments of a poem, intended to have been written in consequence of reading Major Majoribanks's Slavery. By the Reverend H. E. Holder, of Bristol.
Holder, Henry Evans.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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Report of the Committee of Council and Assembly, of the island of Tobago, on the increase of population, and the melioration of the state of the slaves, as amended and approved by the Colonial Assembly.
Tobago. Assembly.Date: 1799- Books
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A preservative against slavery: or, a caveat to the Freeholders, Citizens, and Burghers of the Kingdom of England, upon the ensuing election of a new Parliament.
Date: [1722]- Books
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Essays historical and moral. By G. Gregory.
Gregory, G. (George), 1754-1808.Date: M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785]- Books
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A panegyrick on our Late Most Gracious Sovereign King William of glorious and immortal memory, as also on His Present Majesty our no less Gracious Sovereign King George. Spoken by James Parkinson one of the scholars of Birmingham School, December 10, 1715, being the day of their breaking up; and publish'd at the desire of some gentlemen that heard it.
Parkinson, James, 1653-1722.Date: 1715- Books
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His Grace Charles Duke of Grafton, and His Excellency Henry Earl of Gallway, Lords Justices General and General Governors of Ireland: their speech to both Houses of Parliament. At Dublin, on Saturday, the 12th day of November, 1715. ...
Ireland. Lord Justices and Council.Date: 1715]