All slave-keepers that keep the innocent in bondage : apostates pretending to lay claim to the pure & holy Christian religion, of what congregation so ever, but especially in their ministers, by whose example the filthy leprosy and apostacy is spread far and near; it is a notorious sin which many of the true Friends of Christ and his pure truth, called Quakers, has been for many years and still are concern'd to write and bear testimony against as a practice so gross & hurtful to religion, and destructive to government beyond what words can set forth, or can be declared of by men or angels, and yet lived in by ministers and magistrates in America. Written for general service
Summary
Corrected date from p. 253: Abington, the 29th of the 3d mo. 1738.
Evans 4149 attributes printing to B. Franklin.
Signatures: A-2M⁴ (2M4 blank).
Evans 4149
ESTC (RLIN) w009836
Miller, C.W. Franklin, 134
Errata: p. [7] at end.
LC copy has paper book label on front paste-down, printed by J.F. Gilbert, Printer, Frankford: The property of Nathan Harper, Frankford; ink ownership inscription: Friends Library, Clear Creek, Putnam Co., Ill. No. 183.
LC copy lacks final blank leaf.
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slavery
early works to 1800
slavery and the church
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pennsylvania
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rare book selections
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benjamin franklin collection library of congress
benjamin franklin
nathan harper
benjamin lay
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Date
01/01/1738
Location
pennsylvania
Source
Library of Congress
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Copyright info
Public Domain