GLC06610: St. George Tucker A Dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it..., 1796.

GLC06610: St. George Tucker A Dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it..., 1796.

The New Nation, 1783-1815

[Complete title] "A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia." First edition. With contemporary notations on and a page of manuscript notes dated 1836 in front. St. George Tucker was an eminent jurist and the prominent scion of Virginia's landed gentry when he wrote this revolutionary pamphlet advocating the abolition of slavery by emancipating children born to slave mothers, thus gradually but effectively abolishing an institution which Tucker abhorred. Tucker's argument was urgent, and prophetic: "The author [considers] the Abolition of Slavery in this State, as an object of the first importance, not only to our moral character and domestic peace, but even to our political salvation." The Dissertation had originated as a series of lectures at the College of William and Mary. Clarkin, Mathew Carey, A Bibliography 283; Sabin 97375; Howes T 396; Wolff 33; Dumond, p. 111.

Tucker, St. George

The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (Collection)

1796

GLC06610

106 p. 20 x 12.3 cm

English

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