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- GLC#
- GLC10209
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1845
- Author/Creator
- Hammond, James Henry, 1807-1864
- Title
- Two Letters on Slavery in the United States Addressed to Thomas Clarkson
- Pagination
- 56 p. ; Height: 22.8 cm, Width: 14.5 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Slavery & Anti-slavery
One pamphlet titled Two Letters on Slavery in the United States Addressed to Thomas Clarkson dated 1845. Written by the South Carolina Governor and Senator, who believed that slavery was the cornerstone of civilization. He defends slavery against its indictment by Clarkson and the English abolitionists. He writes in part, "You will say that man cannot hold property in man. The answer is, that he can and actually does hold property in his fellow all the world over, in a variety of forms, and has always done so." Hammond also remarks and "repudiates, as ridiculously absurd, that much-lauded but no where accredited dogma of Mr. Jefferson, that 'all men are born equal'.'" Hammond's spirited argument was widely distributed in the South and reprinted, with additional letters, in Charleston in the same year.
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