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119 ● (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—MUSIC.) VARIOUS AUTHORS. ”Way
Goes Cuffee Hooray for ’63” * “’63 is the Jubilee” * “Year of Jubilee, or
Kingdom Has Come.” Group of three pieces of music dealing with the
Emancipation Proclamation. Each three separated pages with engraved covers, the first
one more detailed that the others; some heavy foxing and staining to the third title.
Vp, 1863 [1,000/1,500]
120 ● (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCI-
ETY.) Proceedings of the Fourth New England Anti-Slavery Convention Held in
Boston, May 30, 31 and June 1 and 2, 1837. 124 pages. 8vo, original wrappers; a cou-
ple of ink stains to the front cover; contemporary ownership stamp of Charles W.Treadwell
at top of front cover. Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1837 [300/400]
Includes speeches by William Lloyd Garrison, Henry B. Stanton, Samuel May and other
major abolitionists.Afro-Americana, 7046.
121 ● (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) PARKER, THEODORE. A Letter to the
People of the United States, Touching on the Matter of Slavery. 120 pages.Small
8v0, original dark brown, blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; a few
chips from the spine along the front joint; tips rubbed; bookplate.
Boston: Munroe, 1848 [600/800]
FIRST EDITION, PARKER’S OWN COPY WITH HIS OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE ON THE
PASTE-DOWN, AND A PRESENTATION FROM HIM ON THE FRONT FREE END-PAPER.
“Rebecca L Duncan from her friend the author.” Duncan was, no doubt a supporter and prob-
ably one of his parishioners. A number of Letters from her are found in the Theodore Parker
papers. Parker (1810-1860) accepted an invitation from supporters to preach in Boston in
January 1845. His supporters organized the 28th Congregational Society of Boston in
December and installed Parker as minister in January 1846. His congregation, which included
Louisa May Alcott,William Lloyd Garrison, JuliaWard Howe, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
grew to 7000. In Boston, Parker led the movement to combat the stricter Fugitive Slave Act
enacted with the Compromise of 1850. It required law enforcement and citizens of all states-
free states as well as slave states- to assist in the recovery of fugitive slaves. Parker called the law
“a hateful statute of kidnappers”, and helped organize open resistance to it in Boston. Parker
and his followers formed the Committee of Vigilance, refusing to assist with the recovery of fugi-
tive slaves, and helping to hide them. He was indicted but never tried for leading the protest
against returning the runaway Anthony Burns to his owner. Together with his parishioners,
Parker helped hide and smuggle Ellen and William Craft when Georgian slave catchers came
to Boston to arrest them. Due to Parker’s effort, from 1850 to the onset of the American Civil
War in 1861, only two slaves were captured in Boston and transported back to the South.
122 ● (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) PAXTON, JOHN D. Letters on Slavery,
Addressed to the Cumberland Congregation,Virginia. 207 pages.Tall 12mo, origi-
nal publisher’s smooth purple muslin with printed label on the spine; the latter lightly
lacquered, an exceptional copy. Lexington:AbrahamT. Skillman, 1833 [400/600]
FIRST EDITION OF A RATHER SCARCE KENTUCKY IMPRINT. The author, a minister from
the Cumberland area of Virginia, “was so unfortunate as to give some offense on the subject of
Slavery, to a part of the Cumberland congregation (Va), of which he was then pastor.” He
decided, at the urging of friends to clarify his position through these “Letters.” Paxton freed his
own slaves and urged others to do so. OCLC locates only two copies, while Shaw and
Shoemaker locate three more.