- GLC#
- GLC09062
- Type
- Books & pamphlets
- Date
- 1820
- Author/Creator
- Hillhouse, William, fl. 1820
- Title
- The Crisis, No. 1 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missouri Question.
- Place Written
- New Haven, Connecticut
- Pagination
- 19 p. :
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- The First Age of Reform
Printed by A. H. Maltby & Co, New Haven, Connecticut. Denounces slavery and its introduction into the new Territories: "The extension of slavery to the new and unculivated regions of the west...is a great calamity...It is a blot on the human character." Signature of A.H. Maltby, partially trimmed. Bound with, The Crisis, No. 2 or Thoughts on Slavery, Occasioned by the Missourie Question. Auri Sacra Fames [accursed hunger for gold]. Continuation of the above. Signature of A.H. Maltby, partially trimmed.
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