Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842 Remarks on the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips Esq.

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GLC#
GLC00267.052
Type
Books & pamphlets
Date
1839
Author/Creator
Channing, William Ellery, 1780-1842
Title
Remarks on the slavery question, in a letter to Jonathan Phillips Esq.
Place Written
Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination
91 p. : Height: 19.3 cm, Width: 12.3 cm
Primary time period
National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
Sub-Era
Age of Jackson

Attacks colonizationists like Senator Henry Clay, "who dream of removing slavery by the process of draining it off to another country; a process about as reasonable as that of draining the Atlantic." He also argues that colonization confirms racial prejudice implicit in race-based slavery. Published by James Munroe and Company, Boston. Printed by Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge. First edition.

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