Slavery - United States - Controversial literature

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Fragment of an original letter on the slavery of the Negroes , written in the year 1776. By Thomas Day, Esq.; [Four lines in French].
Day, Thomas, 1748-1789.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]
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A discourse, delivered April 11, 1798 , at the request of and before the New-York Society for Promoting the Manumission of Slaves, and Protecting Such of Them as Have Been or May Be Liberated. By E.H. Smith, a member of the society.
Smith, E. H. (Elihu Hubbard), 1771-1798.Date: 1798
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The American in Algiers, or The patriot of seventy-six in captivity A poem, in two cantos. [Two lines of verse from Freneau].
Date: M,DCC,XCVII. [1797]
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A dialogue, concerning the slavery of the Africans shewing it to be the duty and interest of the American colonies to emancipate all their African slaves: with an address to the owners of such slaves. Dedicated to the Honorable the Continental Congress. [Four lines of Scripture texts].
Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803.Date: 1776
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An oration on domestic slavery Delivered at the North Meeting-House in Hartford, on the 12th day of May, A.D. 1791. At the meeting of the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom, and the Relief of Person Unlawfully Holden in Bondage. By Zephaniah Swift, Esquire.
Swift, Zephaniah, 1759-1823.Date: M.DCC,XCI. [1791]