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Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877 National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 11, no. 34, whole no. 554 (January 16, 1851)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08875.37 Author/Creator: Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Newspaper Date: January 16, 1851 Pagination: 4 p. : newspaper Height: 64.4 cm, Width: 47 cm Order a Copy

With previous owner's signature (John Russell) signed along right margin of first page. Contains an article on the Southern press, an announcement for the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, and resolutions from an anti-slavery convention held at Syracuse, New York. Entire fourth page contains "Travels in America," a lecture by George William Howard Carlisle, the seventh Earl of Carlisle. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, 1802-1864
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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