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ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANACS.

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ANTI-SLAVERY ALMANACS. The Liberty Almanac for 1848 [With:] ...for 1849 [And:] ... for 1850.
New York: Published by William Harned, for the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1848; 1849; 1850. Together, 3 volumes, small 8vo (192 x 120 mm). Original pictorial wrappers, housed in a modern cloth clamshell case. Condition: 1848 wrapper detached, light chipping and browning, very slight dampstain to 1849 cover. scarce almanacs issued by the american and foreign anti-slavery society. These issues include much on the Wilmot Proviso, as well as statistical information about slave populations in the U.S. as well as stories and abolitionist articles designed to "urge on a free people the duty of rising up, at once, as one man, and putting a stop to such atrocities."

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Important Books / The Civil War
11:00 AM PT - Apr 9th, 2008

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