An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies | Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

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GLC#: GLC05766
Type: Books & pamphlets
Date: 1844
Author/Creator: Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Title: An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies
Place Written: Boston, Massachusetts
Pagination: 34 p. : Height: 22.5 cm, Width: 14 cm

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Speech by Emerson attacking slavery, one of his earliest statements in support of abolition. First edition. Published by James Munroe and Company.

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Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882 An address delivered in the court-house in Concord, Massachusetts, on 1st August, 1844, on the anniversary of the emancipation of the negroes of the British West Indies