Smith, Gerrit (1797-1874) Compensated emancipation
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.012 Author/Creator: Smith, Gerrit (1797-1874) Place Written: Cleveland, Ohio Type: Printed document Date: August 1857 Pagination: 3 p. ; 30.3 x 20 cm. Order a Copy
[Title continued] a speech by Gerrit Smith, in the National Compensation Convention, held in Cleveland, Ohio, August 25, 26 and 27, 1857. First edition. Smith, a former United States Representative from New York, writes: "The sin of extending the area of slavery, and of encouraging the slaveholders to multiply their investments in human flesh, lies at the door of the North as well as at the door of the South. Northern commerce has connived at, and openly upheld, Slavery." Location of printing is not cited.
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