History of American abolitionism : its four great epochs, embracing narratives of the ordinance of 1787, compromise of 1820, annexation of Texas, Mexican war, Wilmot proviso, Negro insurrections, abolition riots, slave rescues, compromise of 1850, Kansas bill of 1854, John Brown insurrection, 1859, valuable statistics, &c., &c., &c., together with a history of the southern confederacy ... / by F.G. De Fontaine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

De Fontaine, F. G. (Felix Gregory), 1832-1896, author.

Contributor:

D. Appleton and Company, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antislavery movements--United States.

Antislavery movements.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Ritchie, Craig D. (bookplate) (LIBRA Rare copy)

Physical Description:

66 pages ; 23 cm

Other Title:

American abolitionism, from 1787 to 1861

Pamphlets. II PU

Place of Publication:

New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1861.

Summary:

A critique of American abolitionism after 1787, with emphasis upon the negative impact of the movement on the South and slavery. De Fontaine blames fanatic abolitionists for causing dissolution of the Union and for spoiling chances for gradual emancipation in the South. He also gives basic facts and figures on the initial six states of the southern confederacy, including biographies of Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stevens and the slave and free populations of these states.

Notes:

"Originally published in the New York herald."--Title leaf.

Local Notes:

LIBRA Rare copy is number 4 in a collection of 6 antislavery pamphlets published between 1841 and 1862, chiefly in the United States.

LIBRA Rare copy has bookplate ("Craig D. Ritchie") on front pastedown.

LIBRA Rare copy has manuscript contents list and manuscript half-title leaf ("Pamphlets. II.") bound in at beginning of volume.

LIBRA Rare copy: boards detached; spine wanting; many gatherings detached from one another.

OCLC:

5238966