1796
Tucker, St. George
Book
Title: A Dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it...
[Complete title] "A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia." First edition. With contemporary notations on and a page of manuscript notes dated 1836 in front. St. George Tucker was an eminent jurist and the prominent scion of Virginia's landed gentry when he wrote this revolutionary pamphlet advocating the abolition of slavery by emancipating children born to slave mothers, thus gradually but effectively abolishing an institution which Tucker abhorred. Tucker's argument was urgent, and prophetic: "The author [considers] the…
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