Slave Representation,

by Boreas. Awake! O Spirit of the North by Sereno Edwards Dwight

$450 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

23, 1, blank pp. 8vo. Disbound, staining. Item #371303 An interesting tract advocating change of constitution against the Southern states, who because of slave population and the three-fifths clause of the Constiitution had an advantage in representation in the House. Dwight, the son of Yale president Timothy Dwight and later pastor of the Park Street Church in Boston, refers in the work to the three-fifth clause as a “rotten part of the

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