Mar 30, 2017 - Sale 2441

Sale 2441 - Lot 38

Price Realized: $ 1,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) PEMBERTON, JAMES. Minutes of the Proceedings of the Sixth Convention of Delegates from the Abolition Societies in Different Parts of the United States, Assembled at Philadelphia. (drop title). 35 pages, Small 8vo, lacking the presumed wrappers, or cover. Philadelphia, 1800

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An important gathering, with reports by regional representatives. Prints in its entirety "An Act to Prohibit the carrying on of the Slave Trade , from the United States to any foreign place or country." Signed in type by Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg and George Washington, plus, "An Act in Addition to the Act" (previously cited). A scarce pamphlet.