(Abolition) [Weld, Theodore D., compiler]

American Slavery As It Is: Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses

The Anti-Slavery Examiner. No. 6. 224pp. 8vo, New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1839. First edition. Cloth backed boards. Recased laying printed front cover down. Very good.

An extremely important and harrowing compilation of eyewitness testimony. The editor Weld states in his Advertisement that "A majority of the facts and testimony contained in this work rests upon the authority of slaveholders, whose names and residences are given to the public, as vouchers for the truth of their statements. That they should utter falsehoods, for the sake or proclaiming their own infamy, is not probable." Dumond notes that "The Examiner started as a periodical, but became a series of separate monographs after publication of two numbers. There was exceedingly great carelessness in the numbering of the separate titles..." This normally bears the number 10 in the series, but, as Dumond notes, some issues bear the number 6 Dumond, p. 10; Blockson 9148; Sabin 102547.

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