Extracts from the American slave code

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society

Series:

[Pennsylvania State Anti-Slavery Society. Anti-slavery tracts] ; no. 1

Anti-slavery tracts] ; no. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Law and legislation--United States.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

4 p. ; 23 cm.

Edition:

3rd ed. of 10,000.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : Published by the Philadelphia Female Anti-slavery Society, [between 1840 and 1854]

Notes:

"The extracts have been made ... chiefly from authorized editions of the statute books referred to, found in the Philadelphia Law Library."--p. [1].

Caption title. At head of title: No. 1. Read and circulate.

Edition statement transposed. Precedes "No. 1" at head of title.

Imprint from colophon.

Dated from references in text: "The Pa. freeman, National a.s. standard and Liberator can be had at 31 N. Fifth Street, Philada." (p. 4). The National anti-slavery standard began publication in 1840; the Pennsylvania freeman ceased publication in 1854.

Not in Checklist Amer. imprints.