COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Record
Author:
Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave-Trade.
Author (contributor):
JCB Redwood Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Federal Adelphi Society, former owner.
Author (contributor):
Connecticut.
Author (contributor):
Massachusetts.
Author (contributor):
Rhode Island.
Author (contributor):
Connecticut. General Assembly.
Author (contributor):
Massachusetts. General Court.
Author (contributor):
Rhode Island. General Assembly.
Title:
Constitution of a society for abolishing the slave-trade. : With several acts of the legislatures of the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode-Island, for that purpose.
Publisher:
Printed by John Carter
Begin Publication Date:
1789
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991018503259706966
Permanent Call Number:
D789 .P969c
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 1503
Subjects:
Providence Society for Abolishing the Slave-Trade.
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Rhode Island.
Subjects:
Slaves--Emancipation--Rhode Island.
Subjects:
Imprint 1789.
General Note:
"Constitution": p. [3]-6.; "State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. June session, 1774. An act prohibiting the importation of Negroes into this colony": p. 6-8.; "State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. October session, 1779. An act prohibiting slaves being sold out of the state against their consent": p. 8-10.; "State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. February session, 1784. An act authorizing the manumission of Negroes, mulatoes and others, and for the gradual abolition of slavery": p. 10-11.; "State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. Paragraphs of an act passes October, 1785": p. 12.; "Commonwealth of Massachusetts. In the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight. An act to prevent the slave-trade, and for granting relief to the families of such unhappy persons as may be kidnapped or decoyed away from this Commonwealth": p. 12-15.; "At a General Assembly of the state of Connecticut, holden at New-Haven, in said state, on the second Thursday of October, 1788. An act to prevent the slave-trade": p. 15-17.; "State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. In General Assembly, October session, A.D. 1787. An act to prevent the slave-trade, and to encourage the abolition of slavery": p. 17-19.; Signatures: [A]⁴ ([A]1 verso blank) B⁴ C² (C2 verso blank)
Local Note:
John Carter Brown Library copy 1 (D789 .P969c) sewn into contemporary stiff blue paper wrappers.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 (D796 .A512a) bound as 8th item of 11 with: Minutes of the proceedings of the convention of delegates from the abolition societies established in different parts of the United States, assembled at Philadelphia, in the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, and continued, by adjournments, until the seventh day of the same month, inclusive. Philadelphia, 1796.; John Carter Brown Library copy 2 quarter bound in contemporary blue paper covered boards and unbleached paper spine; spine piece is wanting; front board fully detached.; Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy 2: Federal Adelphi Society Library December 1798: ms. inscription on recto of front flyleaf.