"SLAVERY AND FREEDOM ARE ANTAGONISTIC… WHICH DO YOU CHOOSE?"
CHILD, L. Maria. Patriarchal Institution. New York, 1860.
First edition of Child's timely 1860 assault on slavery and its defenders, issued the month before Lincoln's election, an extraordinary assemblage of quotes from fugitive slave ads, southern "Black" codes and newspapers, and key selections from the works of proslavery leaders, skillfully upending claims that "slaves were better off" than northern white workers. $2200.
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