Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
Anti-Slavery Treatise, "Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery" by Weldell Phillips, 1847, 95pp. octavo, printed by Andrews & Prentiss of Boston, is stitch bound with thread, without covers and does not appear to have ever been bound, even though it is printed in several signatures. Very good condition. Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) was an American abolitionist and social reformer, who became the antislavery movement's most powerful orator and, after the Civil War, the chief proponent of full civil rights for freed slaves. Born into a wealthy, aristocratic Boston family, gifted, handsome, and brilliant, he excelled in his law studies at Harvard, graduating in 1831. Phillips was admitted to the bar in 1834 and opened an office in Boston. In 1835, from his office window, he saw William Lloyd Garrison being dragged through the street by a mob, an event that changed his attitude toward slavery. Phillips's meeting with Ann Terry Greene, an active worker in the Boston Female Antislavery Society, increased his interest in the abolition movement. They were married on Oct. 12, 1837. He wrote later that "my wife made an out-and-out abolitionist of me, and always preceded me in the adoption of various causes I have advocated."
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