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The Enormity of the Slave-Trade; and the Duty of Seeking the Moral and Spiritual revelation of the Colored race. Speeches of Wilberforce and Other Documents and Records.
New York: American Tract Society, [ca. 1850]. 16mo (6” x 3.875”), decoratively printed tan wrappers. 144 pp. Early ownership inscription by “C. R. Daggett” at top right of upper wrapper and title p. CONDITION: Very good, 1” loss to top left corner of upper wrapper, slight soiling to lower wrapper. A collection of anti-slavery speeches and texts, including a plan for the education and emancipation of slaves held by Kentucky Presbyterians. The volume opens with William Wilberforce’s famous 1789 Parliamentary motion for the abolition of the slave trade, and includes several other British speeches before “The Bill Passed, Abolishing the Trade” and several anti-slavery documents from the Presbyterian Kentucky Synod. The first of these—the 1818 “Unanimous Action of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States”—deems “the voluntary enslaving of one portion of the human race by another…utterly irreconcilable with the spirit and principles of the gospel of Christ,” and the next outlines “The Substance of the Plan of a Committee of the Synod of Kentucky, for the Instruction and Emancipation of their Slaves” (1835). An 1846 sermon by Rev. John C. Young on the “Duty of Masters” closes the collection.
Item #8490
Price: $350.00
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