Author: [Abolition, Anti-Slavery] Higginson, T.W. (Thomas Wentworth)
Title: Does Slavery Christianize the Negro? Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 4
Description: New York, American Anti-Slavery Society, Publisher. Pamphlet. no date, presumed circa late 1850s, due to the mention of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Pamphlet. 8 pp. An antislavery tract using the words of various ministers and preachers against themselves to cite the hypocrisy in preaching Christianity to enslaved people, using those words to rebut the notion that slavery enlightened enslaved people through religion. Higginson also cites the sermons of Rev. Meade of Virginia who told enslaved people that god put them on Earth to serve their masters. Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a militant abolitionist, being a member of the disunion abolitionists and arguing for the disobeying of the Fugitive Slave Law. He was a colonel in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first authorized African American regiment, and continued to fight for the rights of freed enslaved people after the war. GOOD condition. Ex-library with a stamp on the front and rear cover. Moderate toning and minor soiling. See Sabin 31755 for this and other works by Higginson. Good .

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