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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BURRIT, ELIHU, GERRITT SMITH, ET AL. The National Compensation Emancipation Society. Four page prospectus and fund-raising appeal, large folio sheet of blue paper, 10-3/4 x 18 inches, folded to form four large 4to pages, printed on all sides; a couple of short closed tears, creased where folded. New York: Bible House, 1856-1857
apparently rare. no copies located in oclc. A most unorthodox solution to the problem facing the nation. In order to avoid armed conflict, as had already taken place in Kansas, Gerrit Smith, Elihu Burritt and others earned the wrath of William Lloyd Garrison and the Garrisonian crowd for suggesting an agreement between the northern states and Southern states to compensate slave-owners for the economic loss they would suffer by universal emancipation. Garrison fumed that it was "latest of the eccentricities, gyrations and somersaults of Mr. Smith, whose powers of reasoning and moral discrimination seem to be getting more and more obfuscated." As a result, sides were drawn with Douglass defending the renegades who suggested a possible path away from war with the slave-holding states. In the end, the plan did not come to pass.
