Autumn 2020 Catalogue

16 American Heroes & Leaders Autumn 2020 “A Systematic Rebuttal Of The Most Common Objections To Abolition” 13. TREADWELL, Seymour Boughton. American Liberties and American Slavery. Morally and Politically Illustrated. New-York, 1838. Octavo, original brown cloth. $2800. Click for more info First edition of this abolitionist’s treatise, a detailed antislavery work, emphasizing the slaveholders’ muzzling of the democratic process by preventing public discussions of slavery and thus barring the possibility of democratic change, in the original cloth, with the bookplate of the Anti-Slavery Library. “Originally a backer of Henry Clay’s colonization scheme, Treadwell evolved into an advocate of abolition, the most extreme of the anti-slavery positions… [H]e penned the book American Liberties and American Slavery Morally and Politically Illustrated , a systematic rebuttal of the most common objections to abolition... Treadwell was a ‘one-idea man,’ and that idea was the eradication of slavery… [A]ccording to his daughter, he used [his] farm for a more secretive purpose—aiding fugitive slaves as a station along the Underground Railroad” ( Jackson Citizen Patriot ). Contemporary bookplate of the Anti-Slavery Library. Some dampstaining to first few and last few leaves, chiefly marginal; light rubbing to binding. A very good copy in original cloth.