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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DE BOW, J.D. Statistical View of the United States, Embracing its territory, population-white, free colored, and slave, moral and social condition, industry, property and revenue . . . Being a Compendium of the Seventh Census. 400 pages. 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth, half dime-sized damp-stain to the margin of some text; some very light wear; spine faded; early stamp of an attorney's office on front paste-down. Washington, 1854
An detailed breakdown of the seventh census, which just preceded the Civil War. In addition to the facts and figures regarding the slave and free black populations of the various states, the editor provides information on the institution of slavery and the African slave-trade. The editor, J.D. De Bow, a pro-slavery advocate, went on to found De Bow's Review, published in the South during the Civil War.
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