A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, Without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the Interior Traffic in Slaves, and on Kidnapping. Illustrated with Engravings |
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| Title | A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery, in the United States: With Reflections on the Practicability of Restoring the Moral Rights of the Slave, Without Impairing the Legal Privileges of the Possessor; and a Project of a Colonial Asylum for Free Persons of Colour: Including Memoirs of Facts on the ... |
| Author | Jesse Torrey |
| Illustrated by | Jesse Torrey |
| Contributors | Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) |
| Publisher | author., 1817 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 29 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 94 pages |
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