Early American Abolitionists: A Collection of Anti-slavery Writings, 1760-1820James G. Basker, Justine Ahlstrom Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2005 - 372 pages |
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3 A Serious Address to the Rulers of America on the Inconsistency | 53 |
4 The Constitution of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting | 87 |
5 A Poetical Epistle to the Enslaved Africans in the Character of | 105 |
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