(JUDAICA) Speeches on the Jew Bill

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(JUDAICA.) Speeches on the Jew Bill. iv, 236 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards, minor wear, tastefully rebacked with backstrip and partial printed spine label laid down; closed tear to leaf 22:2; uncut with original endpapers; old library bookplate on front pastedown, inked and perforated library stamps on title page. Philadelphia, 1829

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For fifty years after independence, the state of Maryland prohibited Jews from holding public office. This law was repeatedly challenged by members of the state's small Jewish community and its more reasonable legislators until the 1826 passage of "An Act to extend to the sect of people professing the Jewish religion the same rights and privileges that are enjoyed by Christians"--better known at the time as "the Jew Bill." This volume collects speeches in support of the Jew Bill by H.M. Brackenridge, W.G.D. Worthington, and John S. Tyson, as well as several unrelated speeches and essays by Brackenridge--one of them a eulogy for the late presidents Adams and Jefferson. Rosenbach 312; Sabin 7183.