1855 ANTI-SLAVERY TRACTS. The United States Constitution as a Pro-Slavery Document.

A very rare first issue [c.1855] of the American Anti-Slavery Society’s choice for the American Anti-Slavery Society’s first “tract” to be published. It established the A.A.S.S.’s position that slavery in general, and racial inequality, were nearly guaranteed because the United States Constitution itself took these as givens and enshrined them as legal and structural.

The document proposes that the Constitution is itself a pro-slavery instrument and that radical, i.e. “true” abolitionists should refuse to vote or take office until it is amended and revised to articulate its intent to do equal good for “all people.”

Anonymous. Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 1. The United States Constitution. New York. American Anti-Slavery Society. Nd. c.1855. 12pp.

Good + example with discrete pinholes near spine, still having its original tied binding. A few stains and a fold near spine. Quite good.