1810 THE BOOK THAT ENDED SLAVERY IN AMERICA. Rare Book on Race Owned by Thirteenth Amendment Swing Vote. Hymns Our Afflictions

Our Afflictions

He circumlocutes his own innovative ideas and moves them beyond rationalism by means of self-deprecatingly styling himself a "mad man

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Concerns about the Harsh Treatment of American Soldiers Held in England

1810 THE BOOK THAT ENDED SLAVERY IN AMERICA. Rare Book on Race Owned by Thirteenth Amendment Swing Vote. Hymns Our AfflictionsWhat a storied little volume. The text of the present volume is that of Samuel Stanhope Smith [1751 1819], Presbyterian divine and later President of Princeton. At the Philosophical Society in 1787, he delivered what was, for the time, a significantly progressive set of lectures with regard to the origin and meaning of race, as well as theological and practical proposals for the future. He argued, controversially for the time, that race was not "set,"