Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 240
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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) SWANN, THOMAS. Immediate Emancipation in Maryland. Proceedings of the Union State Central Committee, at a Meeting held in Temperance Temple, Baltimore, Wednesday, December 16, 1863. 20 pages. 8vo, disbound; couple of small institutional stamps. Baltimore: Bull & Tuttle, 1863
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Published at the beginning of a bitter wartime campaign for governor of Maryland, Swann was opposed to slavery and had quit the American Party to join the Union party. He endorsed the Emancipation Proclamation and was elected in 1864.