2022-01 Raynors HCA Auction
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Booklet, “The Character and Influence of Abolitionism, A Sermon preached in the First Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, on Sabbath Evening, Dec. 9th,1860.”, 31pp., New York: Nesbitt. Original printed tan wrappers. The Reverend In this pre-Civil War sermon asserts that God “restrain the violence of fanatical men,” argues that scripture does not condemn slavery, prays that “abolitionism is abusive in its persistent misrepresentation of the legal principles involved in the relation between master and slave,” and warns of dissolution of the Union and the horrors of War. Archivally reinforced binding, soft fold mark to center, overall Very Good.
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