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Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877 National Anti-Slavery Standard. [Vol. 12, no. 4, whole no. 576 (June 19, 1851)]

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08875.44 Author/Creator: Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877 Place Written: New York, New York Type: Newspaper Date: 19 June 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 from the Southern Press on "The Constitutional Rights of Secession." Includes an article on abolitionist George Thompson's recent address at Norristown, Pennsylvania, among miscellaneous other reports. Edited by Quincy and James Russell Lowell. Published weekly by the American Anti-Slavery Society.

Quincy, Edmund, 1808-1877
Lowell, James Russell, 1819-1891
Thompson, George, 1804-1878

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