Slavery Inconsistent with Justice and Good Policy, Proved

by a Speech Delivered in the Convention Held at Danville, Kentucky by David Rice

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36pp. 12mo. Disbound. Sabin 70826; Howes R246; Lib. Co. Afro American 8857; Shaw 7197; Eberstadt 130:343. Item #371365 First published in Lexington in 1792 during Kentucky's constitutional convention, under the pseudonym Philanthropos, Presbyterian minister David Rice proposed that the convention should put an end to slavery in Kentucky. The work proved to be an early abolitionist manifesto and was reprinted in Philadelphia 1792 , London 1793

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