1855 INTER-STATE SLAVE TRADE. Rare Tract Against “American Bred” Slave Trade.

Rather scarce pamphlet refuting the Southern argument that the “domestic breeding” of slaves in Virginia and other States for sale in the American market was doing away with the evils of forced kidnappings in Africa, the horrors of the Middle Passage, etc., that American slavery was becoming kinder, gentler, and more domesticated.

J. G. Palfrey [1796-1881] was Secretary to the A.A.S.S., Professor of Biblical Literature, and Dean of the Faculty at Harvard Divinity School. He was elected to Congress in 1847 as a “Conscience Whig” who opposed slavery. He himself had emancipated 16 slaves he inherited from his father, a Louisiana plantation owner.

Palfrey, John G. Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 5. The Inter-State Slave Trade. New York. American Anti-Slavery Society. Nd. c.1855. 8pp.

Good + example with discrete pinholes near spine, still having its original tied binding. Quite good.