4pp, 8 1/2 x 13 1/4 in. (creasing at center fold, separation at folds, light soil). Signed in type by William Bleckly, Clerk to the Meeting. OCLC indicates this version, where the "L" of "London" in title falls under the "A" of "Yearly-Meeting," may be an American line-by-line reprint. Provenance: Deaccession stamp from collections of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Reporting on front page states that "the just and charitable endeavors of friends on that continent [America] have so happily succeeded, that the slavery of the poor negroes is nearly put an end to amongst them, and has greatly decreased amongst those of other professions." Reflecting accounts and epistles from New England, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, the author relays an optimistic assessment of the progress of abolitionist Quakers in those regions and on the status of enslavement in the northern American colonies. Despite progress, however, it would be more than two decades before all Northern states had voted to abolish the institution of slavery within their borders.