A very scarce imprint of the proceedings of the second annual meeting of one of the more absolutist anti-slavery societies. While even many in favor of abolition favored some form of protracted process, the more radical found this concession outrageous, quite literally equating the gradual elimination of slavery to the gradual elimination of permissible murder or rape.
The document contains one of the earliest American articulations of the history of "negro slavery" in America, going back to the Portuguese, exploring the relationship fo the early settlers at Jamestown, etc., to slavery, and specifically in New Hampshire. It continues up through black involvement in the revolution, the work of Anthony Benezet, extensive interaction with Moses Fiske's important work, Tyrannical Liberty-Men. A Discourse on Negro Slavery [1795], etc. This is followed by a history and present assessment of the abolitionist cause in America with a strong focus on New Hampshire. Already, there are rumblings of the "disunionizing" of the Southern states, etc., A critical early historical narrative of Slavery in America.
A fascinating document. Very scarce in the trade.
First Annual Report [after the initial meeting in 1834] of the New-Hampshire Anti-Slavery Society. Presented at a Meeting of the Society, Held at Concord. June 4, 1835. Concord. Elbridge G. Chase, Printer. 1835. 48pp.
Very good in original wraps; some toning, small turns at corners. Very faintest of previous institutional stamp on title [barely noticable]. A truly exemplary copy.
