An exceptionally rare item relating to the desire of North Carolina to renegotiate how "free negroes" and "slaves" affected the allocation of representatives to the State Legislature. The complete speeches are included and clearly indicate a state on the verge of crisis, with "taxation without representation" and 1776 language being used since men were "taxed" on their slaves, but received no additional representation, etc., while the other side argued that only white property owners should count toward representation and that the tax on negroes was a property tax, not a personal tax, etc.,
We trace no examples at auction in the past 100 years and none in the trade. Exceptionally rare.
Anonymous. The Constitution of North Carolina; with A Historical Account of Its Origin and Changes: Together with an Account and Explanation of the Questions of Constitutional Reform, Now Agitating the People of the State; A Table Showing the Apportionment of Senators, and Other Matter Connected with these Subjects. Raleigh. Printed at the N. C. Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and Blind. 1851. 150pp.
A good copy, bound in wraps, generally solid, with light foxing, handled pages, and toned throughout.
