PHELPS, Amos A.

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Lectures on Slavery and its Remedy. First edition of this collection of abolitionist lectures in early 19th-century New England. Amos A. Phelps (1805-1847), an energetic abolitionist, was in 1834 pastor of the Pine-Street Church in Boston. During this time, he worked as an agent for Garrison's American Anti-Slavery Society, which entailed lecture tours throughout New England. This edition collects four lectures from these tours; it also includes a list of ministers whom Phelps had converted to the cause. The appendices include Phelps's response to the evergreen argument that slaves were "contented and happy" and a history of slave uprisings by Joshua Cotton (1792–1864), one of the founders of the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Sabin records a Boston and Philadelphia imprint from 1834, without assigning priority.

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