[Document, 1788 May 01]
- Title
- [Document, 1788 May 01]
- Library Location
- Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
- Name
- Sharp, Granville, 1735-1813 (Author)
- Society for the Manumission of Slaves (Addressee)
- Format
- correspondence
- Digital Project
- Papers of John Jay
- Date
- May 01, 1788
- Language
- English
- Physical Description
- 4 pages
- Subjects
- United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
- Summary
- Addressed to New York Manumission Society. Reports on progress of the cause of abolition of slavery and the slave trade in Britain. Expresses disappointment at results of the American Constitutional Convention as far as restrictions on slave trade are concerned. Results of Parliamentary discussion uncertain. Arguments used against abolition of slave trade. Petitions of Universities and towns supporting abolition of trade. Beginnings of anti-slavery organization in France. Encloses report on Society's activities in England.
- Identifier
- columbia.jay.08626