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Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa : addressed to the people of Great-Britain.

Title
  1. Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa : addressed to the people of Great-Britain.
Published by
  1. London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1792.
Author
  1. Muncaster, John Pennington, Baron, 1737-1813

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Additional authors
  1. Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814
  2. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
Description
  1. 100 pages; 21 cm
Donor/Sponsor
  1. Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2021-2024).
Subject
  1. Slave trade
  2. Great Britain
  3. Bookplates (Provenance)
  4. Early works
  5. Africa
  6. Slave trade > Great Britain > Early works to 1800
  7. Slave trade > Africa > Early works to 1800
Genre/Form
  1. Early works.
  2. Bookplates (Provenance)
Call number
  1. Sc Rare 326.1-M (Muncaster, J. P. Historical sketches of the slave trade)
Indexed in (note)
  1. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time;
  2. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall.
Author
  1. Muncaster, John Pennington, Baron, 1737-1813, author.
Title
  1. Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa : addressed to the people of Great-Britain.
Publisher
  1. London : Printed for John Stockdale, 1792.
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Indexed in:
  1. Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time; 51302
  2. New York Public Library. Dictionary catalog of the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature & History. Boston: G. K. Hall., v. 6, page 4774, column 1, row 7
Local note
  1. The Schomburg Center Manuscripts, Archives & Rare Book Division possesses two copies of this book. The copy in Sc Rare 326.1-M (accession # H632038) 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" lacks the NYPL perforated stamp and any other stamps but contains some processing markings of the original Schomburg Collection. This copy is bound with the title page of "Peckard Peter. Am I Not a Man? And a Brother? With All Humility Addressed to the British Legislature. Cambridge: Printed by J. Archdeacon and sold by J. & J. Mereill T. Payne & Son and J. & J. Fletcher, 1788" and a map of the African Continent at the back. Bound in hunter green cloth over boards library binding; and gilt spine.
  2. Copy in Sc Rare C 16-31 (Lapidus Collection) is a gift; which is part of the Lapidus Collection added to the Schomburg collection in 2015. Rebound in quarter grey and light blue paper over stiff boards, and natural printed spine label.
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Place of publication
  1. Great Britain England London.
Added author
  1. Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, distributor, publisher.
  2. Lapidus, Sidney, 1937- donor.
  3. Arthur A. Schomburg Negro Collection, bookplate.
  4. Reddick, Lawrence Dunbar, 1910-1995, Curator.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Muncaster, John Pennington, Baron, 1737-1813. Historical sketches of the slave trade and of its effects in Africa. London, J. Stockdale, 1792 (OCoLC)551327326
LCCN
  1. 48044377
Research call number
  1. Sc Rare 326.1-M (Muncaster, J. P. Historical sketches of the slave trade)
  2. Sc Rare C 16-31 (Lapidus Collection)
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