Cotton Is King And Pro-Slavery Arguments

Subtitled: "Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartwright, on this Important Subject, by E. N. Elliott, L.L.D., President of Planters' College Mississippi.With an Essay on Slavery in the Light of International Law". #####1st ed., (8vo) 908, [4] ad pp. Engraved portraits. Publishers brown calf, black/red spine labels. Includes "Liberty and Slavery: Or, Slavery in the Light of Moral and Political Philosophy" by A.T. Bledsoe; "The Bible Argument: Or, Slavery in the Light of Divine Revelation" by Thornton Stringfellow; "Slavery In the Light of Social Ethics: by Chancellor Harper; "Slavery in the Light of Political Science" by J.H. Hammond; "Slavery in the Light of Ethnology" by S.A. Cartwright; and "Slavery in the Light of International Law" by E.N. Elliott. Reprinted in 2017-18, this first edition is quite scarce with only four copies in OCLC. Howes E108. ######Condition: Fair; covers heavily damaged; partially split with an old, clumsy repair by scotch tape; numerous cracks, chips, damp stain; inner hinges cracked but intact. Interior: Prior owners inked signature on ffep, pencil notations on fep; substantial dampstain to the blank pages at front, extending to frontispiece and title page and fairly disappears after that. Text block substantially clean and tight but Titlepage and frontispiece foxed; little to no foxing after that except for the several portrait frontispieces and title page introducing each of the six major sections, which were printed on different stock.

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Publisher: Pritchard, Abbott, & Loomis

Year: 1860

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

First Edition

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