The First Emancipation: the Abolition of Slavery in the North

by Zilversmit Arthur

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Hardcover, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1968. Second Printing. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. After describing slavery as it was practiced in the farms, workshops, and households of the North, the author chronicles the efforts made from the late seventeenth century to the early nineteenth, by individuals and groups, to end slavery in the northern states. Bump to head edge of

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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