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- GLC#
- GLC00267.036
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 27 May 1840
- Author/Creator
- Society of Friends
- Title
- Memorial of the Society of Friends in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, praying the adoption of measures for the suppression of the African slavetrade.
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 3 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Message to Congress emphasizing the "horror and brutality of the middle passage." The memorial states that the trade is being "prosecuted to a greater extent, and in a manner more destructive to its victims, than it ever was before." 26 Congress, 1st session, document no. 491. Printed by Blair & Rives.
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