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FIRST APPEARANCE OF HIS LETTER(BANNEKER, BENJAMIN.) American Mercury. Volume VIII, Number 434. Newspaper containing Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson on the abolition of slavery. 4 pages, folio; contemporary ink notations in the margins. Hartford, 29 October 1792
The first appearance of the African-American clockmaker and astronomer's famous letter, addressing the inhumanity of the slave trade to then Secretary of State Jefferson. The letter was published in pamphlet form later the same year. This issue of the American Mercury also contains news of John Paul Jones' death.<
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