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RARE, HIDDEN ABOLITIONIST TRACT (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CAREY, HENRY C. The Slave Question [hidden between the wrappers for 'Sheep Husbandry, in the South... a Complete Manual] * with a piece of paper with a penciled note: 'If you already have this periodical, please give it to some other gentleman who is an agriculturalist [read abolitionist]' Nine pages in the larger pamphlet. 8vo, original pale green wrappers; some chips along the edges, from being passed around. Burlington, 1848
a well-known abolitionist tract, hidden within the wrappers of a pamphlet on sheep husbandry, and thus exceedingly rare. Southern slave states passed legislation early on, some more stringent (death) than others, prohibiting the production and or distribution of anti-slavery propaganda in any form. The present piece, titled 'The Slave Question' was the actual lead article in the January 1848 issue of the noted agricultural magazine, 'The Plough, the Loom and the Anvil.' It was a logical choice in which to disguise this abolitionist tract. The Plough, The Loom and the Anvil was a staple publication that no farmer would be without. Henry C. Carey (1793-1879) was the son of Mathew Carey (1760-1839), noted abolitionist and publisher of the famous diagram of a slave ship that appeared in the pages of his American Museum Magazine for 1789.
