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1856 Slaveholding Not Sinful. Slavery, the Punishment of Man's Sin, its Remedy, the Gospel of Christ
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Description
Author's Presentation Copy, Early Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, Signed, Very Scarce
A very scarce work.
Signed by the author to the recto of the front blank, "Rev. M. N. Moore, from the Author".
The second edition.
An essay by Samuel B. How in which he tries to prove that slavery is not sinful, using passages from the Bible to support his opinion.
This argument was delivered before the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, New Brunswick, in October 1855. The author was the pastor of the church, which was founded in New Jersey in 1717.
An interesting piece of Americana published during the tumultuous years leading up to the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861.
An ex-institutional copy from the General Theological Seminary Library, with labels to the front paste downs, and stamps.
Condition
In the original cloth binding. Externally, both boards are detached, lacking most of the backstrip. Light bumping to the extremities. A little light rubbing and marks to the boards. Fading to the rear board. Torn label to the backstrip. Endpapers are detached but present. Author's inscription to the recto of the front blank. Institutional label to the paste downs. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with spotting. Institutional stamp to the title page. The occasional pencil note to the margins.
Fair
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