Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 351

Price Realized: $ 180
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(MILITARY.) BENJAMIN, JUDAH P. The African Slave Trade. The Secret Purpose of the Insurgents to Revive it. No Treaty Against the Slave Trade to be Entered into with the European Powers. 24 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers; rear cover with signed of removal from an album, with small paper repair. Philadelphia, 1863

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first separate printing of an intercepted message, from the Confederate Secretary of State, purportedly captured before it could reach L.Q.C. Lamar, the Confederate foreign "Commissioner." This message shows the Confederacy's caution and unwillingness to enter into any agreement with a foreign power that might affect the South's continued policy of slavery. Not in the Blockson Collection.