1854 W. A. STEARNS. Slavery in its Present State and Relations. Rare with Great Provenance! Great Awakening

1854 W. A. STEARNS. Slavery in its Present State and Relations. Rare with Great Provenance! Great AwakeningVery rare work on the present state and abominable practices of Slavery in the United States. The author, William Augustus Stearns, had just been elected President of Andover the same year. It was a bold and controversial move to make his first official publication on the subject of slavery. The message was clear; Andover would join with the abolitionists as an institution and there would be no compromise or moderation on the subject. He begins at

Fernando Wood

Very nicely preserved and quite rare

] Record of the Life and Work of the Rev

"To my dear Lily

with a stop to the seconds' hand - an admirable contrivance for enabling a person to take the exact time of observations: it was constructed by Dent

early and not unattractive label at base of spine

That we are to deprive others of every thing that is precious to them to promote our own interest

The Path of the Redeemed [sermons]

holiness as though eternal life depended upon it [bizarre phrasing here]

but thou art a vessel of wrath

Much like Philip Doddridge

or discourses