1860 FOUNDERS of the REPUBLIC ON U S SLAVERY Civil War SLAVE TRADE 1st Ed

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TEACHINGS OF PATRIOTS AND STATESMEN; OR THE FOUNDERS OF THE REPUBLIC ON SLAVERY P RESENTED FOR AUCTION is the original 1860 First Edition of “Teaching of Patriots and Statesman or the Founders of the Republic on Slavery” by Ezra B. Chase. Most of the information contained within this book has been locked up in scores of huge Congressional volumes, entirely inaccessible to the general mass of readers; or if, by chance or otherwise, accessible, requiring so much time and research as to render it comparatively valueless. Mr. Chase's ambition in reference to this work was to place before the people information upon the subject of Slavery that was then agitating the country, upon which they can rely, the views and opinions of those distinguished patriots and statesmen who formed the government, and whose intentions and principles should be heeded and carried out, if we would preserve it from disruption and decay based upon the Constitutional principles of liberty. This book is particularly noteworthy as it was written at a time when the United States was on the brink of Civil War; it was meant to clairfy the slavery question. Such contents include: Memorial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society to Congress on the slave trade, 1790; Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, drawn by Madison and Jefferson; Slavery in the district of read more

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