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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
PICKARD, CHISTOPHER, Printer.
The Duties of Servants.
Printed broad-
side, 11
1
⁄
2
x 9
1
⁄
4
inches with Greek key
border. A fine example.
Leeds: Christopher Pickard, circa 1850
[400/600]
An unusual piece, done in the form of question
and answer: “What are the duties of ser-
vants?” “Respects, Faithfulness, Obedience and
Diligence.” There are 26 such questions,
unquestionably pro-slavery, and not surprisingly
loaded with the usual Bible defense of servitude.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—
RELIGION.) THORNWELL, JAMES
HENLEY.
The Rights and Duties of
Masters, a Sermon Preached at the
Dedication of a Church, Erected in
Charleston, S.C. for the Benefit
and Instruction of the Colored
Population.
51 pages, bound in later
marbled paper-covered boards with
morocco label up the spine.
Charleston, S.C.: Walker and James, 1850
[600/800]
“
Masters, give unto your servants that which is
just and equal, knowing that ye also have a
Master in Heaven.” Reverend Thornwell, a
staunch defender of slavery not only defended
the system, but defined the argument in the
most extreme terms, calling the abolitionists
“atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans,
[and] Jacobins” while the slave-owners were the
“friends of order and regulated freedom.” 1850
was the year of the Compromise, and a few
months after this sermon was preached, the
Fugitive Slave Law went into effect. Blockson,
9916; Afro-Americana, 10266.
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