(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Duties of Masters to Servants Three Pre

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Duties of Masters to Servants: Three Premium Essays. 151, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; lacking free endpapers, moderate foxing and minor wear to contents; early owners' inscriptions on pastedowns. Charleston, SC: Southern Baptist Publication Society, 1851

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The opening sentence of the preface reads, "By Masters the writer understands the owners of servants in distinction from those who hire or oversee them." The volume consists of three essays offering supportive moral guidance to slaveowners: "Master and Servant" by H.N. McTyeire; "Melville Letters, or, The Duties of Masters to their Servants" by C.F. Sturgis; and "The Duties of Christian Masters" by A.T. Holmes. Afro-Americana 6278; Sabin 43667. One traced at auction in the last century, at a Swann sale, 26 October 1995, lot 341.