A serious address to the rulers of America [electronic resource] : on the inconsistency of their conduct respecting slavery : forming a contrast between the encroachments of England on American liberty, and, American injustice in tolerating slavery

Author:: Cooper, David, 1725-1795
Published:: Trenton : Printed by I. Collins, 1783.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (22 pages).
Additional Creators:: Farmer and Benezet, Anthony, 1713-1784

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Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 3: The institution of slavery

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Slavery—United States—Early works to 1800

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Signed (p. 22): "A farmer. February, 1783."
By David Cooper; authorship " ... is mentioned in ... [his manuscript] diary under 1783." Cf. Quaker bibliographical notes, by H. J. Cadbury. (In Bulletin of Friends' historical association. 1937, v. 26, no. 1. p. 45-48).
Attributed to Anthony Benezet by both Sabin and Evans.
Reproduction of the original from the Boston Public Library.
"As for me, I will assuredly contend for full and impartial liberty, whether my labour may be successful or vain."
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