A LETTER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, K. G., PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, ON AMERICAN SLAVERY
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- New York: Ross & Tousey, 1861
New York: Ross & Tousey, 1861. 84pp. Original printed front wrapper. Disbound, rubberstamp in top margin of page [5], else Very Good.
DAB's sketch of Wikoff, "an author and adventurer, of dubious origins," includes this "pamphlet dispute with Palmerston." Wikoff's preface is dated January 28, 1861, at the beginning of the Secession Crisis. He discusses at length the history and economics of slavery in the New World, emphasizing its introduction here by England, railing against "Northern fanaticism," and justifying the South's insistence on maintaining and expanding its Peculiar Institution.
"It is unjust and indecent for Englishmen to give way to denunciation of slavery and abuse of Slaveholders."
FIRST EDITION. XX DAB 198. Not in Sabin, Bartlett, Work, Blockson, Eberstadt, Decker, LCP.
DAB's sketch of Wikoff, "an author and adventurer, of dubious origins," includes this "pamphlet dispute with Palmerston." Wikoff's preface is dated January 28, 1861, at the beginning of the Secession Crisis. He discusses at length the history and economics of slavery in the New World, emphasizing its introduction here by England, railing against "Northern fanaticism," and justifying the South's insistence on maintaining and expanding its Peculiar Institution.
"It is unjust and indecent for Englishmen to give way to denunciation of slavery and abuse of Slaveholders."
FIRST EDITION. XX DAB 198. Not in Sabin, Bartlett, Work, Blockson, Eberstadt, Decker, LCP.
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Title
A LETTER TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON, K. G., PRIME MINISTER OF ENGLAND, ON AMERICAN SLAVERY
Author
Wikoff, Henry
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Ross & Tousey: New York
Date
1861