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Baker, James Loring, fl. 1860 Slavery.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00267.210 Author/Creator: Baker, James Loring, fl. 1860 Place Written: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Type: Pamphlet Date: 1860 Pagination: 1 v. : 19 p. : Height: 23.7 cm, Width: 14.7 cm Order a Copy

Printed by John A. Norton. Claims that Anglo Saxon and African races can only coexist "in their present relative condition, but in no other way." Calls for free labor to gradually and permanently overtake slavery, but does not advocate slavery's immediate end. Fragile.

Baker, James Loring, fl. 1860

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