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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CONNECTICUT.
“At Bridgewater, November
4th day, 1776. Then Received of Josiah Hayden fifty pounds of money for a
Negro girl name Anais. She is about twenty one or two years old. Born in my
house, a slave. Received by me, Daniel Howard.”
Small, narrow piece of paper, 2 x 8
inches; paper evenly toned.
Bridgewater, CT, 1776
[1,500/2,500]
A Note on the reverse states: “This paper, in the handwriting of grandfather Howard, the father of my
mother, 1819, Charles Hayden.” Josiah Hayden, the purchaser of the slave Anais, was in Captain
Bailey’s company of Minute Men which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775. A very interesting
association.
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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)
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST TITLE AND
FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE SEC
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OND
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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.
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