Slavery not forbidden by Scripture, or, A defence of the West-India planters, from the aspersions thrown out against them, by the author of a pamphlet, entitled, "An address to the inhabitants of the British settlements in America, upon slave-keeping" / / by a West-Indian.
Attributed to Richard Nisbet, printed by John Sparhawk. Cf. Evans.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴ E².
Original document: Book.
Summary
This 18th-century defense of slavery was written by a West Indian planter in response to abolitionist Benjamin Rush's pamphlet An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America, upon Slave-Keeping.