Search Results: Justice and Expediency by John Greenleaf Whittier

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New-York: [American Anti-Slavery Society], 1833. Softcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Octavo. [15]pp. Sewn printed self-wrappers. Text is complete, but erroneously paginated, as issued by the publisher. Early ink owner name on front cover with his neat notations in upper margin of two leaves, observing the mispagination. Scattered moderate foxing in the text, with narrow loss to paper along the lower foredge, moderate creasing at corners of text, a very good copy. An important John G. Whittier publication, marking the beginning of the poet's long and active involvement in anti-slavery agitation. The American Anti-Slavery Society was founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison, John Greenleaf Whittier, Arthur Tappan, and others. This entire issue is devoted to Whittier's "closely reasoned and documented attack on the Colonization Society... demands immediate and unconditional emancipation of slaves, and this commitment places him squarely within the Garrison camp of reformers and… Read More

New York: Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1833. First Edition thus. Sewn binding. Very good. Octavo, pp. [49]-63 [blank]. Mis-paginated on the first few leaves, as in other known copies, but complete. In the publisher's side-sewn string-bound self-wrappers, very good, with a faint, if evident dampstain throughout, but with only negligible foxing; quite well-preserved. Recruited by William Lloyd Garrison, Whittier took up the cause of abolition in 1833 with the publication of Justice and Expediency, "a closely reasoned and carefully documented attack on the Colonization Society. Widely supported by Northern and Southern churches, the Colonization Society was a conservative reform group that proposed to resolve the issue of slavery by sending American blacks, both slave and free, back to Africa." Henry Clay was one of the leaders of the Society. On the strength of Whittier's pamphlet, he was chosen to be a delegate at the Philadelphia Convention of 1833 which founded the American Anti-Slavery Society. He would… Read More