1856 SLAVERY 1ed Kansas-Nebraska Fugitive Slave ACT Missouri Compromise BANCROFT

1856 SLAVERY 1^ed Kansas-Nebraska Fugitive Slave ACT Missouri Compromise BANCROFT

“A History of the Struggle for Slavery” is a rare pre-Civil War treatise of debates, reports, essays, and articles from the United States Congress on slavery in America. This work, collected and edited by Horace Greeley, includes notable slavery-focused reports including:

• The Kansas-Nebraska Act
• The Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Act
• The Annexation of Texas in 1845
• Missouri territory and statehood, slavery struggles
  • Missouri Compromise 1820
• The origins of slavery in the early 17^th-century in Virginia, importation of slaves

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GREELEY, Horace [edit.]

A history of the struggle for slavery extension or restriction in the United States : from the Declaration of Independence to the present day

New York: Dix, Edwards & Co., 1856. First edition.

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • iv, 164, [4]
• References: Sabin 28488
• Provenance: Handwritten on bookplate – George Bancroft
  • George Bancroft (1800 – 1891) was an American historian, statesman and Democratic politician who was prominent in promoting secondary education both in his home state of Massachusetts and at the national and international levels. During his tenure as U.S. Secretary of the Navy, he established the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. He was a senior American diplomat in Europe, leading diplomatic missions to Britain and Germany. Among his best-known writings is the magisterial series, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent.
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover: tight and secure
  • Brown cloth
• Size: ~ 9.75in X 6.25in (25cm x 16cm)

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