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Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1858. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 305p. plus advertisements. A beige cloth hardcover book in acceptable condition. Spine cockeyed and holes wearing through the cloth along the edges. Corners rubbed through. Early owners' inscriptions and doodling on endpapers; one is dated 1858. Pages heavily foxed and many segments of pages coming loose, but still weakly attached. A heavily worn but readable copy. A debate on the merits of slavery from the mid-19th century.
Ought American Slavery to Be Perpetuated?: A Debate Between Rev. W.G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne. Held at Philadelphia, September, 1858 by Brownlow and Pryne - 1858
by Brownlow and Pryne
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Ought American Slavery to Be Perpetuated?: A Debate Between Rev. W.G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne. Held at Philadelphia, September, 1858
by Brownlow and Pryne
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1st edition. Very Good hardcover, no DJ. Brown calico-grain cloth over boards; covers blind stamped with central mandorla in floral and strapwork frames; gilt stamped titles on spine; pale tan-yellow end papers; tissue-guarded frontispiece portraits of each speaker. Clean, square covers and spine; slight general fading; rear cover has light color damp staining at top fore corner - interior not affected; tightly bound; foxing of front and rear fly leaves and fo facing page of each; bright, clean interior; supple leaves. Sabin # [8708]; Roorbach. 12mo, 305 pp + 6 pp adverts.
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- Date Published 1858
- Keywords SLAVERY, CIVIL WAR, ABOLITION, CHRISTIANITY, RACISM, HYPOCRISY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BLACKS, SOUTHERNERS, PREACHERS, MINISTERS, DEBATES
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OUGHT AMERICAN SLAVERY TO BE PERPETUATED? A Debate between Rev. W.G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne. Held at Philadelphia, September, 1858
by W.G. Brownlow and A. Pryne
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Ought American Slavery To Be Perpetuated
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1858. BROWNLOW, W[illiam] G. and PRYNE, A[bram]. Ought American Slavery To Be Perpetuated? A Debate between Rev. W.G. Brownlow and Rev. A. Pryne. Held at Philadelphia, September, 1858. Phila. Published for the Authors by J.B. Lippincott & Co., [1858]. 1st ed. 305pp. Portrait frontis., portrait. Orig. embossed cloth. Some wear to spine ends and corners, light speckling to cloth, a bit of light scattered foxing, else very good. Afro-Americana 1750. William Brownlow was a Methodist minister, newspaper publisher and post-war U.S. senator and governor of Tennessee . Brownlow was strongly pro-slavery in the 1850s. He gave a Scriptural defense of slavery in a speech delivered in Knoxville in 1857, and the following year, issued a challenge to Northern abolitionists to debate the issue. The challenge was initially accepted by Frederick Douglass but Brownlow refused to debate him because of his race. The challenge was then taken up by Abram Pryne of McGrawville, New York, a clergyman with the Congregational…
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