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Thoughts upon Slavery

"GIVE LIBERTY TO WHOM LIBERTY IS DUE, THAT IS, TO EVERY CHILD OF MAN": FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THOUGHTS UPON SLAVERY, 1774, BY THE FOUNDER OF METHODISM JOHN WESLEY

(BENEZET, Anthony) WESLEY, John. Thoughts upon Slavery. London, Printed: Re-Printed in Philadelphia, 1774.

First American edition, preceded only by the same year's much shorter English edition of Wesley's influential and controversial early attack on slavery and the slave trade, the first to contain abolitionist Anthony Benezet's expansive notes and afterword not in the English edition, bound with a separate title page with four other works in publisher Joseph Crukshank's A Collection of Religous Tracts. $12,000.

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Doctrine of Baptisms

"AN INAPPROPRIATE EXERCISE OF POWER IN SPIRITUAL MATTERS": DELL'S DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS, 1759, PUBLISHED BY THE PHILADELPHIA FIRM OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND DAVID HALL

(FRANKLIN, Benjamin) DELL, William. Doctrine of Baptisms. London Printed: Philadelphia, 1759.

1759 Philadelphia edition printed by Franklin and Hall of Dell's Doctrine of Baptisms at the request of the Philadelphia Friends and leading abolitionist Anthony Benezet, early signaling the emergence of a profoundly influential friendship between Franklin and Benezet. $2800.

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