[Rarebooks] fa: 1830s ABOLITIONIST PAMPHLETS - American Anti-Slavery Society, etc.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Six early abolitionist pamphlets and tracts bound together in one  
volume...

The Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society : with the  
Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention at Philadelphia,  
December, 1833 and The Address to the Public, issued by the Executive  
Committee of the Society, in September, 1835. New York: American Anti- 
Slavery Society, 143 Nassau Street, 1838. First edition thus. 12 pp.  
[WITH:] An Address to the Presbyterians of Kentucky proposing a Plan  
for the Instruction and Emancipation of their Slaves. By a Committee  
of the Synod of Kentucky. Newburyport [Mass]: Charles Whipple, 1836.  
36 pp. [WITH:] The Narrative of Amos Dresser, with Stone's Letters  
from Natchez, — An Obituary Notice of the Writer, and Two letters from  
Tallahassee, Relating to the Treatment of Slaves. New York: American  
Anti-Slavery Society, 1836. First edition. 42 pp; illustrated with  
woodcuts. Hardcover 12mo (18 x 11cm) in early cloth-covered boards  
with gilt-stamped rules and title ("Slavery") on spine.

In addition, the volume contains three other pamphlets, separately  
paginated but without separate title-pages: Thoughts upon Slavery. By  
the Rev. John Wesley, A.M. [Wesleyan Anti-Slavery Society, 1835?], 24  
pp., with a woodcut vignette; Does the Bible Sanction Slavery? (ca.  
1830s, issued without title-page), 12 pp.; Why Work for the Slave?  
(ca. 1838, caption title as issued), 12 pp., illustrated with woodcuts.

This edition of the Constitution was published just a year before the  
Anti-Slavery Society split into two factions: one branch, denouncing  
the Constitution and advocating more aggressive action and women's  
rights, followed William Lloyd Garrison, the other following Louis  
Tappan. The Narrative of Amos Dresser gives an account of Dresser's  
trial and public whipping in Nashville for having circulated anti- 
slavery literature. Why Work for the Slave? contains numerous  
reproductions of Southern newspaper notices of slave auctions, rewards  
offered for runaway slaves, etc.