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Slavery. Bacon Leonard.ABAA

Review of Pamphlets on Slavery and Colonization. First Published in the Quarterly Christian Spectator for March 1833. Second Separate Edition.

Slavery. Alabama. Harding Edward.ABAA

Stampless cover autograph letter signed E. Harding to his family member perhaps niece Maria A. Queen of Washington D. C.

182719400Mount Vernon Alabama April 20 '27 i.e. 1827. Separating at spots along old folds; some staining browning and light soiling; in good condition legible. One page on a lined bifolium 9.75 x 7.75 inches approx. 250 words. A prelude to flush times in Alabama and representative bit of evidence of the growth of the internal slave trade from the soon-to-be commander of the Mount Vernon Arsenal authorized by Congress in May 1828. Harding appears to have had roots in Montgomery County Maryland; this letter includes references to inheritance complications and to Maria's recent misfortunes: "I recd. a letter some days ago from Mr. R. Burdine communicating the disturbing intelligence at the loss of yr. house & effects by fire and by this days post I enclose here a draft on the Bank of the Metropolis for $100 for yr. benefit. Ã± this amount althoÃ small is all I can well afford Ã± I have four children to educate who are at very expensive schools and their Mother is now abroad in Pennsylvania superintending their education. . . . I think those who have surreptitiously obtained possession of your Grandfathers property ought to contribute liberally to yr. relief. Ã± From that estate you know I have nothing but 5 Negroes the land left me by my father and which I shall ever believe my children were swindled out of. I have long since abandoned the idea of ever being able to recover." Harding notes further "I suppose you are aware my brother H. purchased for me last fall Old Sall and her daughter who joined me in December last. They with the rest of the Negroes are around me & doing well." Maria Queen appears in public records petitioning for compensation in May 1862 for the emancipation of the enslaved Ellen Hanson freed under the Washington D. C. compensated emancipation act: "Said Ellen was given to Me at the age of Ten years by My Grand father Edward Harding of Montgomery County Md Said Ellen has been in my immediate service ever since." Franked by Harding as the postmaster of Mount Vernon. With a preliminary transcript. April 20, '27, [i.e.,] unknown books

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Colonization. Slavery. Methodist. Janes Edmund S.ABAA

Stampless cover autograph letter signed Edmund S. James to Rev. John Seys of Litchfield County Conn.

185019425Philadelphia March 20 1850. Portion of the blank leaf clipped traces of a partially-removed decal from the blank verso; a little foxed in very good condition. Quite legible. 1.5 pages in autograph ink on a lined blue folio approx. 250 words. Integral address. On the negotiation for and Methodist process of returning the missionary Seys to Liberia as a colonization agent: "I this morning presented your communication and also Mr. PinneyÃs to my colleagues. Their conclusion was expressed as follows. 'Agreed that we still abide by our decision of last year Ã± That we have authority to make appointments to agencies for the Colonization cause Ã± 2d That we are not willing to advise Br. Seys as to the expediency of his accepting such an agency but leave that to his own discretion. 3d That at present we see no insuperable difficulty in the way of his appointment as Agent of the Colonization Society of Maryland at the next session of the New York Conference provided that previous to that time he receives a commission from said society and decides to accept the appointment.' In order to relieve your mind on the other point I will inform you that I see no way of deciding the question of a Superintendent to Liberia for some time to come. We do not just it safe and proper to give personal advice to brethren in regard to such appointments." Seys was a native of Trinidad and according to later accounts of colonization societies had been an overseer on a family plantation until a conversion experience led him to Methodism abolition and emigration to the United States. Seys here appears to have been angling for a return to Liberia as a colonization agent a goal at which he seems to have succeeded; he would be named Minister and Consul to Liberia in 1866. With a preliminary typescript. March 20, unknown books

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