Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 7,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
RARE BROADSIDE (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) NEW ENGLAND ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Emancipator.-- Extra. The Abolition of Slavery:A Plea for the Oppressed. Letterpress broadside, 17x12 inches; creases where folded; printed in four columns, on both sides and entirely untrimmed. Boston, [1833]

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rare broadside. only two copies are known: New-York Historical Society and New York Public Library (not the Schomburg branch). The writer, given as "A Member of the New England Anti-Slavery Society" sets out in fourteen points the reasons not to compromise in any way with immediate emancipation.