Correspondence relative to the General Abolition of Slavery in Texas, and throughout the World; 1843-1844. Mr. Hume. docket title

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7, 1 pp. Folio. Disbound. Item #378092 Remarkably revealing diplomatic correspondence between Sir Richard Pakenham and John C. Calhoun, written just before the annexation of Texas and published a month after the conclusion of the Mexican-American War. The letters were issued publicly at the request of Joseph Hume, a Radical MP but a moderate on the abolition of slavery, who was concerned over undue interference by Britain in American

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