[African-Americana] An Official Public Appeal Aimed to Defend the American Colonization Society Against Abolitionist Critics and Promote the Mission of Relocating Free Black Americans to Liberia

Address of the Managers of the American Colonization Society, to the People of the United States. Adopted at their Meeting, June 19, 1832
Washington: Printed by James C. Dunn, 1832. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp. Drab library-style buckram, red and black morocco spine labels, stamped in gilt, boards worn and soiled; contemporary ownership signature on title-page, partially trimmed away, numerical notation at same; spotting to sheets. Sabin 81763

In this address, Ralph Randolph Gurley defends the aims of the American Colonization Society, which advocated the relocation of free African Americans to Liberia on the west coast of Africa.

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An Oration Delivered by Hon. Charles Sumner Under the Auspices of the Young Men's Republican Union of New York, November 27, 1861. New York: Printed for the Young Men's Republican Union, 1861. First edition. 8vo. 16 pp.

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The Equal Rights of All...Speech of Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, in the United States Senate, February 6 and 7, 1866. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1866. First edition. 8vo. 32 pp.

Together bound with over a dozen assorted pamphlets on various subjects. Several sheets starting or separated; last pamphlet loose.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.

[African-Americana] An Official Public Appeal Aimed to Defend the American Colonization Society Against Abolitionist Critics and Promote the Mission of Relocating Free Black Americans to Liberia