The duty of the American scholar to politics and the times. An oration delivered on Tuesday, August 5, 1856, before the literary societies of Wesleyan University..

by George William Curtis

$325 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. 8vo, pp. 46; original printed green wrappers; slight soiling, spine a little cracked; very good or better. An important oration in the slavery debate by the Rhode Island writer and speaker George William Curtis. Curtis 1824-1892 was involved in the founding of the Republican party, and this speech was his first to explore the critical national question surrounding slavery. He spoke in favor of African American equality

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