Heading: (African American, 1861)
Author: [Oliver Johnson, ed.]
Title: National Anti-Slavery Standard
Place Published: New York, Philadelphia
Publisher:American Anti-Slavery Society
Date Published: March 23, 1861
Description: Newspaper. 4 pp. 24½x17".Published three weeks after the Inauguration of Abraham Lincoln and three weeks before the outbreak of the Civil War, this issue, noted that Virginia had offered to mediate between North and South, on the basis that "the Slave states had a perfect right to uphold slavery" and the Free states had "no right to oppose". It cynically predicted that Jefferson Davis, on behalf of the seceding states, would "begin to intimate their gracious willingness to enter into a treaty for reunion with us" and the Lincoln Administration and the Republican Party would eagerly "throw themselves at their feet", doubting the President's willingness to risk the disunion of the country to put an end to slavery. The National Anti-Slavery Standard was the weekly newspaper of William Lloyd Garrison's Abolitionist Society, which advocated complete and immediate emancipation of American slaves.

Chipped at spine, inexpertly repaired small tears, stains, ownership marks; good.