QUARTERLY ANTI-SLAVE MGAZINE, Volume II, No. 4, July 1837.
by WRIGHT Jr., ELIZUR
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New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837. No Binding. Very Good. crown octavo (20.5x13 cm). - VIII, pp.[1], 346-452. - Disbound -- Elizur Wright (1804-1885) was a Yale graduate, a mathematician, often described as the "father of life insurance" in the United States, and a great advocate of abolition. In 1833, he founded, along withLewis Tappan, Arthur Tappan, Theodore Weld and James Birney, the American Anti-Slavery Society. - He incurred the enmity of slavery's advocates, and once they tried to kidnap him and bring to North Carolina. - The present issue of the quarterly is devoted almost in its entirety to the Fourth Annual Report of the Society. The report records many cruel events. An example: "Flogging to death. - A negro, the property of Mr John Skinner, of Society Hill, S. C., was flogged by his overseer, one Bill Schenck, on the 25th, ult., in such a severe manner that he died the same evening. Schenck was examined before a justice, and discharged. - Southern paper." - There is also an 8-page letter from Dr. James Farmer, the historian of New Hampshire, entitled "Was Slavery Forced upon the South?". - RARE.
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- Title
- QUARTERLY ANTI-SLAVE MGAZINE, Volume II, No. 4, July 1837.
- Author
- WRIGHT Jr., ELIZUR
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
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- Publisher
- American Anti-Slavery Society
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1837
- Keywords
- SLAVERY - ANTI-SLAVERY - ABOLITIONISM - AMERICANA - YALE - MATHEMATICS - PAMPHLETS - PERIODICALS - INSURANCE - KIDNAP - NORTH CAROLINA - TAPPAN - THEODORE WELD - JAMES BIRNEY - JAMES FARMER - NEW HAMPSHIRE - FLOGGING
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