(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) BENEZET ANTHONY Some Historical Acco

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BENEZET, ANTHONY. Some Historical Account of Guinea, its Situation, Produce and the General Disposition of its Inhabitants. 144 pages, bound with Extract from a Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery by Granville Sharp. 53 pages, plus an Index. Modern green morocco backed marbled paper covered boards; spine with four raised bands, title in one panel. Philadelphia: Cruikshank, 1771 (both titles)

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first edition of the first title and first american edition of the second. Shipton and Mooney, 11985. Benezet and Sharp were very early critics of the slave trade, believing that it would cause the country great harm, as it indeed did.