Research Catalog

Title

Speeches in Parliament : respecting the abolition of the African slave trade.

Author

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Publication

• [Edinburgh] : [Society Instituted at Edinburgh for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade], 1789.
• Edinburgh : Printed by Ds. Willison for the Society Instituted at Edinburgh for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1789.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.
• Willison, David, active 1769-1820
• Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, publisher.
• Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Description

116 pages; 21 cm

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).

Subjects

• Slavery
• Speeches, addresses, etc., English
• Conference papers and proceedings
• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Great Britain
• Slavery > Great Britain > Congresses
• Speeches, addresses, etc., English > Great Britain > Congresses
• Slave trade > Great Britain

Genre/Form

• Bookplates (Provenance)
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalog
• New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on digital format via the NYPL Digital Collections.

Contents

The speech of Mr. Beaufoy, Tuesday, the 18th June 1788, in a Committee of the whole House, on a bill for regulating the conveyance of Negroes from Africa to the West Indies; to which are added Observations on the evidence adduced against the bill.--Debates in the House of Commons relative to the abolition of the slave trade, Wednesday, 13th May 1789.--Correct and authentic copies of the twelve propositions submitted on Tuesday evening by Mr. Wilberforce to the consideration of the Committee, to whom the Report of the Privy Council [and] various petitions for the abolition of the slave trade ... had been referred.--Translation of a letter written by the Society of the Friends of the Negroes, in France to the different bailliages, or districts, entitled to send delegates to the States-General.

Call Number

*C p.v. 1141, no. 5

OCLC

26267998

Author

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.

Title

Speeches in Parliament : respecting the abolition of the African slave trade.

Manufacturer

[Edinburgh] : [Society Instituted at Edinburgh for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade], 1789.

Edinburgh : Printed by Ds. Willison for the Society Instituted at Edinburgh for the Purpose of Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1789.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Physical Medium

8vo. rdabf

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT26816

New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 4, page 3061, column 3, row 3-6

Additional Formats

Also available on digital format via the NYPL Digital Collections.

Local Note

The Schomburg Center's Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division's copy is probably one of the books added to the collection when Catherine A. Latimer was the collection librarian; and Lawrence Reddick was the Curator. It includes NYPL's bookplate of "Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection"; imperfect: bound in navy blue cloth over boards library binding, and gilt spine.

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Place of Publication

Scotland Edinburgh.

Added Author

Wilberforce, William, 1759-1833.

Willison, David, active 1769-1820, printer.

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, publisher.

Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.

Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.

Research Call Number

*C p.v. 1141, no. 5

Sc Rare 326.1-G (Great Britain. Parliament. Speeches in Parliament)