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JQ Adams antislavery pamphlet

John Quincy ADAMS. Letter from the Hon. John Q. Adams, to the Bangor Committee, on the Abolition of Slavery in the West Indies.

Chicago: Office of the Western Citizen, [1843]. 8 pp., 8vo (230 x 145 mm). Unbound, partly uncut. Condition: light chipping to extremities, tear to head of final leaf due. a very scarce denunciation of slavery by j. q. adams. Adams printed letter is a reply to the Bangor Committee, declining their invitation to speak because of failing health. He writes: "The extinction of slavery from the face of the earth, is a problem, moral, political religious, which at this moment rocks the foundation of the regions of civilized man." Adams continues to discuss the Revolutionary War, the Declaration of Independance, and religion. This separately printed work is very rare. Byrd, Illinois Imprints, 1009.