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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) RUSH, BENJAMIN ET AL.
Minutes of the
Proceedings of a Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies.
30 pages,
original drab wrappers, re-sewn; ink number at top left of front wrapper; tiny institutional
stamp on verso of title-page; an untrimmed wide-margined copy.
Philadelphia: Zachariah Poulson, 1794
[800/1,200]
A REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST SUCH CONVENTION IN THE UNITED
STATES
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Benjamin Rush, of Pennsylvania (1746– 1813) Founding Father, physician, writer,
educator, and humanitarian suggested that Congress “prohibit, by law the citizens of the United
States from carrying on a commerce, in slaves, for the supply of foreign nations; and also, to pro-
hibit foreigners from fitting out their ships in the ports of the United States for the purpose of
carrying on the slave-trade.” He went further as well, with five more “points” severely limiting
any aspect of the slave trade, as carried out within the borders of the United States.A scarce and
important pamphlet. Evans 26533.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—SLAVE NARRATIVES.) ANDERSON,
JOHN.
John Anderson, a slave from the state of Missouri.
Albumen print from a
carte-de-visite, clipped and affixed to a matte; beneath the image is his signature, presum-
ably clipped from the bottom of the original mount, with a later, more refined example of
his signature beneath that. Nicely matted.
[Liberia?, circa 1870’s]
[400/600]
John Anderson was a slave from Missouri. In 1853 he was sold to a new owner who forbade
him to visit his wife (belonging to someone else). Finding this intolerable,Anderson escaped and
made his way Canada.There he was arrested. His case was taken up by the Abolitionists on
both sides of the border, and he was finally released on a technicality. On Christmas eve, 1862,
he sailed to Liberia. Nothing more of him is known.There does exist a published narrative of
Anderson’s life (London: Harper Twelvetrees, 1863.)
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