A Debate on Slavery - Couverture rigide

Blanchard, Jonathan; Rice, N L 1807-1877

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1342004744 ISBN 13 : 9781342004741

Editeur : Palala Press, 2015

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The Publishers commend this work to public attention as a learned, spirited, and thorough discussion of the great moral question whether the relation of slavery, divested of all circumstances not necessarily connected with it, is sinful. The debate grew out of the proceedings of the last meeting of the (O. S.) General Assembly of the Presbyterian church, in regard to slavery, in which Dr. Rice was a conspicuous actor, and the author of a series of resolutions, touching this subject, which were passed by that body. He was soon after invited to a debate, by some gentlemen of this city, and Mr. Blanchard was chosen as his opponent. Their respective friends regarded these gentlemen as their most able advocates, and each party, confident of success, relied on the skill and logical power hitherto exhibited by them, on similar occasions. The discussion was held in the Tabernacle, the largest room in the city, and was listened to by a crowded audience of great respectability, during the whole of the twenty-four hours it occupied. It was conducted on both sides with constant reference to publication, and everything pertinent to the subject was urged in as concise a manner as the mode of debate would admit. Two reporters of eminence, A. J. Stansberry, Esq., of Washington city, and Edward P. Cranch, Esq., of Cincinnati, were employed. The report was written out by them, revised by the parties, and is here given with a complete index prefixed. In short, nothing that could, in their judgment, increase the value of the book, has been withheld by either authors or publishers. There is no subject at this moment receiving a greater share of the attention of Christendom than this none certainly involving more important consequences to our civil and ecclesiastical institutions. It employed the energies of the first minds of Great Britain for nearly half a century. We are at le
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palala Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1342004744
• ISBN 13: 9781342004741
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 520
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible