July 14th, 2011
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 7/14/2011
Booklet, “The Hand of God with the Black Race.” A discourse delivered before the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, by Rev. Alexander T. McGill, Philadelphia, 1862, 19pp. octavo. Inscribed at top “Selden J. Coffin”. It begins: “...In the very same year - the year 1620 - there came to this continent two portions of the human race, the most opposite, in all respects, that could be found on the face of the earth. The one was white, and the other was black; the one was free, the other captive; the one was enlightened, the other ignorant; the one was elevated with the best intelligence that ever dawned upon the world, the other debased with the darkest delusions that ever invaded our guilty nature. The one were so much the masters of their own destiny, that the raging elements of the sea, the frowning terrors of the wilderness, a barren coast, a savage hostility before them, and a haughty despotism behind them, could not hinder them...The other were so much the mere products of time and chance, that they seemed to have no destiny whatever...These two opposite portions were the pilgrims who came to Plymouth in the Mayflower; and the first cargo of African slaves that came to Jamestown, Virginia, in a Dutch man-of-war...” Much more. Stapled at spine, else about VG.
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