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"American Slavery is a System of Deep Injustice and Wrong": Rare First Edition of Liberty or Slavery: the Great National Question
BALDWIN, A.C.; R.B. Thurston; Timothy Williston.
Liberty or Slavery; the Great National Question. Three Prize Essays on American Slavery.
Boston: Congregational Board of Publication, 1857.
First edition of this important collection of three prize-winning antislavery essays published in Boston the same year as the infamous Dred Scott decision. Small octavo, original publisher's brown gilt- and blind-stamped cloth. Containing Reverend R.B. Thurston's essay "The Error and the Duty in Regard to Slavery," Reverend A.C. Baldwin's essay "Friendly Letters to a Christian Slaver-Holder," and Reverend Timothy Williston's essay "Is American Slavery an Institution Which Christianity Sanctions?" With a secretarial presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Rev. Martin Dudley, with the fraternal regards of A.C. Baldwin." In very good condition. Interior fresh with light soiling to bright gilt cloth. Rare and desirable signed.
Price: $2,800.00 Item Number: 151981
