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SAMUEL MAY’S COPY
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CHANNING, WILLIAM ELLERY. [MAY,
SAMUEL J.]
Emancipation.
71 pages; string-bound; outer leaves toned; some foxing
throughout.
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society
[350/500]
A FINE ASSOCIATION COPY WITH THE OWNERSHIP SIGNATURE OF ABOLITIONIST
SAMUEL J
.
MAY AT THE TOP OF THE TITLE
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PAGE
.
This little pamphlet was abolitionist
William Ellery Channing’s (1780-1842) last published work. It is a favorable report on the
results of Emancipation in the West Indies, which he hoped would be an inducement for the
United States to follow the example. Samuel J. May (1797-1871) was an ardent abolitionist
and one of the co-founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, the publishers of this tract.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY.
Emancipator EXTRA. Slave Market of America.
Engraved broadside, 28 x 21
1
⁄
2
inches; professionally cleaned and restored with some toning and light foxing remaining;
some expert archival repairs; backed with archival paper.
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836
[4,000/6,000]
A RARE BROADSIDE PROTESTING THE HOUSE VOTE FOR THE
“
GAG BILL
”
preventing even
the discussion of the passage of any bill to put an end to slavery in general, and in the District
of Columbia in particular. After repeated petitions and attempts to legislate against slavery in
the nation’s capital, “A special committee of the House of Representatives, appointed on
February 8, 1836, under the chairmanship of Henry L. Pinckney of South Carolina, recom-
mended the following resolution: “That all petitions, memorials, propositions, or papers relating
in any way, or extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall without
being either printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no further action whatever shall be
had thereon.” The resolution passed by a vote of 177 to 68. Printed at the bottom of the
broadside are the names of those who voted for Pinckney’s resolution. See Dumond, pages
236-37.
