Anti-Slavery Almanac - 1839
THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC FOR 1839. (title page) THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANAC, FOR 1839, BEING THE THIRD AFTER BISSEXTILE OR LEAP-YEAR, AND THE 63D OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. CALCULATED FOR BOSTON; ADAPTED TO THE NEW ENGLAND STATES. Vol. 1 No.4. Pub. By: S.W. Benedict, New York and Isaac Knapp, Boston. Pict. Wraps, 48 pgs. Fourteen illustrations including THE NATION’S ACT – MAN AUCTION AT THE CAPITAL – A FREEMAN SOLD; A PRINTING PRESS DEMOLISHED AT SLAVERY’S BIDDING; COLORED SCHOLARS EXCLUDED FROM SCHOOLS; a listing of runaway slave bounty ads; a table of statistics of the United States; political register of the twenty-fifth congress, etc.; various articles including PRO-SLAVERY OBJECTIONS and ARE SLAVES CONTENTED AND HAPPY?; TESTIMONY OF SLAVEHOLDERS; TESTIMONY OF JAMES BRADLEY AN EMANCIPATED SLAVE; plus much more. Sewn as issued. Tanning, but very readable and overall in vg cond.