American Slavery: A reprint of an article on "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"

[NASSAU (William senior).]

American Slavery: A reprint of an article on "Uncle Tom's Cabin,"

of which a portion was inserted in the 206th number of the “Edinburgh Review;” and of Mr. Sumner’s Speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech.

8vo. Hardcover in brown cloth, slightly worn. iv, 164, 24pp. publisher’s advertisements. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans & Roberts, 1856.

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Inscription to ffep: “His Excellency Sylvain van der Weyer from the author”. Van der Weyer served as the Belgian Minister to the Court of St. James’s.

The Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner delivered his famous anti-slavery speech, “The Crime Against Kansas”, to the United States senate over a period of two days in 1856. In it, he addressed whether Kansas should be admitted to the union as a slave state, and he attacked two senators in particular, Stephen A. Douglas and Andrew Butler, for their pro-slavery stance. Two days later, a relative of Butler’s beat Sumner with a cane in response to Sumner’s attacks on Butler.

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