Item #2345 [African-American [Philosophy] Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends Against Slavery: Revived by the Representatives of New England Yearly Meeting. Quakers, New England Yearly Meeting of Friends.

[African-American [Philosophy] Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends Against Slavery: Revived by the Representatives of New England Yearly Meeting

Boston: Printed by S.N. Dickinson & Co., 1847.

A full-throated cry against slavery. The Quakers, who had long opposed slavery, wonder how a supposedly Christian nation could allow such evil to exist.

"From the border slave states to the far south and southwest, the vessels of the slave-trader regularly ply, laden with youthful victims, reared like cattle for the market" (page 4).

This pamphlet is scarce to the market.

PHYSICAL DETAILS: 12mo (7 1/4 x 4 5/8 inches; 183 x 119 mm), 12 pages, in original printed wrappers.

CONDITION: Slight soiling and creasing to wrappers, horizontal fold, probably for mailing. Very Good or better. Item #2345

Price: $350.00

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