Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 5. The inter-state slave trade drop title

by John G. Palfrey

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New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1855 . 8vo, pp. 8; self-wrappers; stitched, as issued; fine. Palfrey 1796-1881 was secretary, Professor of Biblical Literature, and Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Divinity School, and later was editor of the North American Review. He was elected to Congress in 1847. He was a Conscience Whig who opposed slavery, having freed sixteen slaves inherited from his father, who, like his two brothers, was a successful

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