...Africa Inhabited by the Negroes.' This was succeeded five years later by a more pertinent work, entitled 'A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies...on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes.' The labors of no man of that age were more earnest or effective in the cause of the slave than were...

...Inhabited by the Negroes.' This was succeeded five years later by a more pertinent work, entitled ' A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies...on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes.' The labors of no man of that age were more earnest or effective in the cause of the slave than were...

...entitled, "An Account of that Part of Africa inhabited by the Negroes." This was soon followed by " A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies,...on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes." His third was, " An Historical Account of Guinea, with an Enquiry into the Rise and Progress of the...

...literary efforts. In 1762 appeared his Account of that part of Africa inhabited by negroes ; in 1767, his Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies on the calamitous state of the enslaved Negroes ; and not long afterwards appeared An Historical Account of Guinea, its produce, and the general disposition...

...fellow creatures, the want whereof set men beneath the brute creation." 16 In the year 1769 appeared his "Caution and Warning to Great Britain and her Colonies on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes in the British Dominions." Referring to this work, he says: "The intent of publishing the following...

...Orphan Asylum in New York City in 1836. Anthony Benezet (1713-84), a teacher and philanthropist, wrote A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes (1766), one of the earliest abolitionist tracts. 3 9 . Benjamin Rush ( 1 745- 1 8 1 3 ) was a physician...

...Benezet (1713-1784) was a Philadelphia Quaker and prolific author of works on social issues, including A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes, published in 1766. fAs a member of the House of Commons, William Wilberforce (1759-1833) was a leader...

...Suffering from poor health, Benezet retired in 1766 to Burlington, New Jersey. That same year, he published A Caution and Warning to Great Britain and Her Colonies on the Calamitous State of the Enslaved Negroes, with its more pointed criticism of slavery and its call for an end to the oppressive institution; it...

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