The First Emancipation: The Abolition of Slavery in the North |
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... Benjamin Rush , the prominent Phil- adelphia physician , published an attack on slavery . Further- more , he brought a petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly , asking it to urge the king to prohibit the slave trade . The petition " was ...
... Benjamin Rush , the prominent Phil- adelphia physician , published an attack on slavery . Further- more , he brought a petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly , asking it to urge the king to prohibit the slave trade . The petition " was ...
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... Rush replied that Christianity would never be spread by methods other than those used by Christ and his Apostles ... [ Benjamin Rush ] , An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America Upon Slave - Keeping ...
... Rush replied that Christianity would never be spread by methods other than those used by Christ and his Apostles ... [ Benjamin Rush ] , An Address to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements in America Upon Slave - Keeping ...
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... Benjamin Rush to the President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society [ 1794 ? ] , in Letters of Benjamin Rush , ed . Lyman H. Butterfield ( 2 vols .; Princeton , N.J. , 1951 ) , II , 754–56 . 46 Moore , Slavery in Mass . , pp . 238-39 ...
... Benjamin Rush to the President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society [ 1794 ? ] , in Letters of Benjamin Rush , ed . Lyman H. Butterfield ( 2 vols .; Princeton , N.J. , 1951 ) , II , 754–56 . 46 Moore , Slavery in Mass . , pp . 238-39 ...
Contents
THE TRIUMPH OF GRADUAL | 169 |
BEYOND GRADUAL ABOLITION | 201 |
APPENDIX | 231 |
Copyright | |
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