1851 1ed Slavery Letters Speeches Horace Mann Legal Fugitive Slave Law Congress

1851 1^ed Slavery Letters Speeches Horace Mann Legal Fugitive Slave Law Congress

 

‘Slavery: Letters & Speeches’ is a compilation of writings by Horace Mann from his time in congress. Mann being an attorney, state senator, anti-slavery Congressman, is most remembered as an education reform. As the first Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education, he did much to improve the quality of public education in the state. He served as an anti-slavery Whig in Congress from 1848-1853. This compilation includes a letter written to answer Webster’s attack on Mann’s legal knowledge of the technicalities of the Fugitive Slave Law.

 

Item number: #12457

Price: $499

 

MANN, Horace

 

Slavery: Letters and Speeches

 

Boston, [Massachusetts]: B.B. Mussey & Co., 1851. First Edition.

 

Details:

• Collation: Complete with all pages
  • xii, 564
• References: Sabin 44323;
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight & secure
• Size: ~8in X 5in (20cm x 13cm)

 

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