Books and pamphlets, 1700s

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These 18th-century items from the African American Perspectives Collection include materials calling for the abolition of slavery, biographies of formerly enslaved people, and a chronicle of free Black caretakers in Philadelphia’s 1793 yellow fever epidemic.

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Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748

Observations on the inslaving, importing, and purchasing of Negroes; with some advice thereon, extracted from the epistle of the yearly-meeting of the people called Quakers held at London in the year 1748

A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 : and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications

A narrative of the proceedings of the black people, during the late awful calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793 : and a refutation of some censures thrown upon them in some late publications

The injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans : illustrated in a sermon preached before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and for the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage, at their annual meeting in New-Haven, September 15, 1791

The injustice and impolicy of the slave trade, and of the slavery of the Africans : illustrated in a sermon preached before the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and for the Relief of Persons Unlawfully Holden in Bondage, at their annual meeting in New-Haven, September 15, 1791

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer

Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, with his answer

A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. An African prince

A narrative of the most remarkable particulars in the life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. An African prince

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the Africian

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the Africian

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

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

A charge, delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy

A charge, delivered to the African Lodge, June 24, 1797, at Menotomy

Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord

Benjamin Banneker's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia almanack and ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African