A Philadelphia edition of Banneker's 1793 almanac that Joseph Crukshank published contained copies of pleas for peace that the English anti-slavery poet William Cowper and others had authored, as well as anti-slavery speeches and writings from England and America. The latter included extracts from speeches that William Pitt, Matthew Montagu and Charles James Fox had given to the British House of Commons in 1792 during the debate on a motion for the abolition of the British slave trade,(2) </ref> an extract from a 1789 poem by an English Quaker, Thomas Wilkinson,(2) (3) Discussion of Thomas Wilkinson's background, poems and influence "in" </ref> and an extract from a query in Thomas Jefferson's 1787 "Notes on the State of Virginia".(2) </ref>