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1847 Abolitionist Monograph, Wendell Phillips

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1847 Abolitionist Monograph by Wendell Phillips

1847, Anti-Slavery Treatise, "Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery" by Weldell Phillips, Fine.
Published more than 150 years ago, this 95 page essay by a noted Massachusetts Abolitionist has withstood the years in great condition. This 9" x 5.5" monograph, printed by Andrews & Prentiss of Boston, is stitch bound with thread, without covers and does not appear to have ever been bound, even though it is printed in several signatures. The bottom page edges have some light ink stains, and the outside pages are are lightly soiled, however the contents are in very nice, clean and readable condition. A faint damp stain affects the bottom corner of the last 20 or so pages. An important Anti-Slavery Tract.

Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) was an American abolitionist and social reformer, who became the antislavery movement's most powerful orator and, after the Civil War, the chief proponent of full civil rights for freed slaves. Born into a wealthy, aristocratic Boston family, gifted, handsome, and brilliant, he excelled in his law studies at Harvard, graduating in 1831. Phillips was admitted to the bar in 1834 and opened an office in Boston. In 1835, from his office window, he saw William Lloyd Garrison being dragged through the street by a mob, an event that changed his attitude toward slavery. Phillips's meeting with Ann Terry Greene, an active worker in the Boston Female Antislavery Society, increased his interest in the abolition movement. They were married on Oct. 12, 1837. He wrote later that "my wife made an out-and-out abolitionist of me, and always preceded me in the adoption of various causes I have advocated." from Answers.com.

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