(AMERICAN REVOLUTION PRELUDE) [Philip Livingston] The Other

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--PRELUDE.) [Philip Livingston?] The Other Side of the Question: or, A Defence of the Liberties of North-America. 29, [1] pages. 8vo, later 1/2 calf, moderate wear; minor foxing, leaf C1 defective with loss of several words, lacks final ad leaf; early owner's signature on title page. New York: James Rivington, 1774

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Written in response to Thomas Bradbury Chandler's "Friendly Address to all Reasonable Americans." He concludes: "For the road to freedom and virtue is not strewed with flowers, but sprinkled with thorns. . . . Remember, that the worst which can possibly befall us, even at the last, is that very slavery which we must now resist and submit to." The presumed author Philip Livingston represented New York in the first Continental Congress; part of his fortune came from his investments in at least 15 slave-trading voyages.

One traced at auction since 1991. Adams, American Independence 128; Evans 13381; Howes L398 ("aa"); Sabin 41634. Provenance: the patriot John G. Van Schaick of Cohoes, NY, who hosted the Continental Army on his estate in 1777, and whose mansion is presently the headquarters of a Daughters of the American Revolution chapter.