2022-07 Raynors HCA Auction
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/15/2022
Booklet, “Slavery in the District of Columbia ...Minority Report ...” Washington, March 12, 1862, 22pp., disbound, VG. In small part, “The undersigned, members of the Committee for the District of Columbia, beg leave to make the following minority report against the passage of the bill ... for the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia... Resolved, That the Constitution confers no power on Congress to establish or abolish slavery in the States .. That to alter, change, or abolish the rights of property in the District of Columbia, without the consent of the owners, would be unjust ...”
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