An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America upon Slave Keeping

Rush identifies himself as the author of this unsigned address in a 29 April 1773 letter to Barbeu Dubourg (see Butterfield, Letters, 76). Butterfield (77-78, n. 2) says that this unsigned address, the first of Rush's "controversial tracts, and his first effort in behalf of the Negroes . . . is one of his most forceful productions and remains one of the most read-able."

Rare. Only 9 copies at auction in the last 125 years, the latest in 2004.