(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) BENEZET ANTHONY A Caution to Great B

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BENEZET, ANTHONY. A Caution to Great Britain and Her Colonies, in Short Representation of the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions. 46 pages, disbound. Philadelphia Printed: London Reprinted, 1767

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first english edition, following an almost simultaneous American edition. Anthony Benezet, a prominent Quaker was one of the earliest critics of the slave trade and the deplorable treatment of the slaves in Great Britain's colonies. Benezet cites accounts of the capture and horrific treatment of slaves, and the barbaric manner in which they were being transported. Afro-Americana, listing only the Philadelphia edition; Dumond, p.26. Sabin, 4671. Howes, B-345.