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Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895 American slavery as it is: testimony of a thousand witnesses.

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC05119 Author/Creator: Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Book Date: 1839 Pagination: 1 v. : 224 p. : Height: 22.4 cm, Width: 14.6 cm Order a Copy

Possibly a first edition. Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Weld asserts, "A majority of the facts and testimony contained in this work rests upon the authority of slaveholders, whose names and residences are given to the public, as vouchers for the truth of their statements... Their testimony is taken, mainly, from recent newspapers, published in slave states." Includes contents and thorough index of privations, punishments, cruelties and objections to abolition.

Weld, Theodore Dwight, 1803-1895

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