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Slave Trade COLLECTION OF 11 WORKS, PAMPHLETS AND BROADSIDES, INCLUDING FOUR WORKS RELATING TO THE SLAVE TRADE, ONE BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN IN ONE VOLUME: Franklin, Benjamin. An Address to the Public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, and the Relief of Free Negroes, unlawfully held in Bondage Philadelphia, 9th of November 1789... [Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1789], broadside, folded--Pennsylvania Society. Philadelphia, 26 October, 1789. At a meeting of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery &c. An Essay of a Plan for improving the condition of Free Negroes...A Plan for improving the condition of the Free Blacks. Philadelphia: Francis Bailey, 1789, broadside, folded, integral address leaf on verso to Sir William Forbes--Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade. London, 28th July, 1789. At a Committee of the Society, instituted in 1787, for the purpose of effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade... [London: 1789]--The Speech of...William Pitt on a motion for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, in the House of Commons, on Monday the second of April, 1792. James Phillips 1792, [Sabin, 63097]; and 7 others from the same period, including works on income tax in Great Britain, an observation on Paine's pamphlet on the English system of Finance, A Vindication of the French Emigrants (Dublin, 1803) and the Trial of William Jackson for high treason (Dublin, 1795); 8vo (apart from broadsides), contemporary half calf, marbled boards, minor wear to binding (1)