Abolition and Slavery Materials in Haverford College Special Collections (HC)

The Vigilante was a French slave ship captured by the British. The pamphlet includes a folding plate showing the inside of the ship.

"Prepared from official documents and published by direction of the representatives of the religious Society of Friends, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware."

The ship Pons was based in Philadelphia, and the slaves captured from it were taken to Liberia.

Originally letters addressed to Thomas Clarkson, a prominent British abolitionist. The author, James Field Stanfield, was a former slave-ship sailor.

The observations in question were made in 1787 and 1788.

"with respect to the fertility of the country; the good disposition of many of the natives, and the manner by which the slave trade is carried on. Extracted from divers authors, in order to shew the iniquity of that trade, and the falsity of the arguments usually advanced in its vindication."

The book also includes "an inquiry into the rise and progress of the slave-trade, its nature and lamentable effects."

One folder within this collection details Leila and Francis Stokes' travels to Africa, in which they express both explicit and implicit colonialist attitudes

Sent by Benjamin Cobb and Benjamin Homer, owners of the Schooner Fair Lady, to the ship's captain, this letter gives advice about port choice and describes the ideal type of slave that should be purchased in St. Croix to sell in Havana