[QUAKERIANA] -- [AFRICAN AMERICANA]. A group of 27 epistles from Quaker Yearly Meetings.

An Epistle from Our Yearly-Meeting, Held in London...To our Friends and Brethren, at their Next Year Meeting, to be held in Philadelphia. 9 issues (incomplete run). [London]: N.p., 1772-1827.

Folio, 9 issues from the years: 1772, 1785, 1787, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1794, 1799, and 1827. (Occasional light spotting, some variations in titles.)

Includes several references to the trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery: "it was a satisfaction to our minds to learn by your epistle of 9th month last, that your attention is still drawn towards endeavouring to promote the deliverance of the distressed Africans from slavery" (1791); "the cause of the oppressed Africans hath indeed been powerfully pleaded in this nation; and one branch of the legislature hath agreed to the gradual abolition of the slave-trade; it remains yet undecided by the other two; but we hope the good hand which hath begun the work will carry it on through all opposition, and crown the unwearied labours of many with success, but its total impression." (1792); "The continuance of the slave trade, and its consequences, still remain a sorrowful consideration to us, yet we are encouraged to hope the endeavours that have been used to relieve its objects from their grievous sufferings, have had a tendency thereto; let us therefore persevere, in hope that, through continued exertion, an abolition of this unrighteous commerce will finally be effected." (1799).

The Yellow Fever epidemics of 1793 and 1798 in Philadelphia are addressed: "The fresh recollection of the calamity with which the city of Philadelphia has been so lately visited...the trying circumstances in which your meeting was held; have excited in many minds a near sympathy with you." (1794); "A solemnity and sympathy over our minds: as a branch of the family we feel with our brethren in their various trials, but the awful calamity with which you have been recently visited, was to us peculiarly impressive." (1799).

[With:] Extracts from the Minutes of our Yearly Meeting, Held in Philadelphia. 12 issues (incomplete run). [Philadelphia]: T. Ellwood Chapman (except where noted), 1829-1864. 8vo (except where noted), 12 issues from the years: 1829, N.p. Folio; 1841, John Richards; 1847; 1848; 1851; 2 copies 1852; 1854; 1855; 1858; 1860; 1861 T. Ellwood Zell; 1864. (Occasional spotting.) Original wrappers.

[With:] From the Yearly Meeting of Women Friends, Held in Philadelphia. 5 issues (incomplete run). Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Champman (except where noted), 1847-1862. 8vo, 5 issues from the years: 1847, 1851, 1852, 1861, 1862, T. Ellwood Zell.

[Also with:] An Address to the Members of the Yearly Meeting of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, 1852. 8vo.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.