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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have.

First edition of this important collection of three prize-winning antislavery essays published in Boston the same year as the infamous Dred Scott decision. Small octavo, original publisher's brown gilt- and blind-stamped cloth. Containing Reverend R.B. Thurston's essay "The Error and the Duty in Regard to Slavery," Reverend A.C. Baldwin's essay "Friendly Letters to a Christian Slaver-Holder," and Reverend Timothy Williston's essay "Is American Slavery an Institution Which Christianity Sanctions?" With a secretarial presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Rev. Martin Dudley, with the fraternal regards of A.C. Baldwin." In very good condition. Interior fresh with light soiling to bright gilt cloth. Rare and desirable signed. In his second inaugural address Lincoln spoke to the core role of religion for both sides in the divide over slavery: "Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other." Slavery not only split North from South, but also clergy and congregations. Liberty or Slavery contains three prize-winning antislavery essays from leading clergy, issued in hopes "of harmonizing Christian men." By 1857, when it appeared, abolitionists had long sought to enlist clergy and congregations. "But as long as nearly every American religious denomination recognized slaveholders as Christians in good standing, the moral case for abolitionism was seriously undermined. Both defenders of slavery and abolitionists believed it essential to prove that their cause was fully compatible with the basic sources of Christian faith." William Lloyd Garrison was not alone in breaking from churches, seeing "the nation's religious bodies as hopelessly corrupted by slavery" (McKivigan, Northern Churches and the Moral Problem of Slavery). These essays, which defend the antislavery work of some in the Presbyterian Church, resists "the immediate and total extinction of southern slavery" while also seeking to unite in the abolitionist cause.