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NEGRO SLAVERY



IN



MASSACHUSETTS.





BY ROBERT RANTOUL, SENR.





From the HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS OF THE ESSEX INSTITUTE, Vol. XXIV, p. 81.




SALEM :
PRINTED FOR THE ESSEX INSTITUTE.
1887
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Slaveholding had been abolished decades earlier in New England when Robert Rantoul, presented his paper on "Negro Slavery in Massachusetts" for a Beverly, Massachusetts audience in 1833. Earlier hopes that this 'Peculiar Institution' so at odds with the nation's republican institutions would fade away grew dimmer as slavery grew stronger than ever in the South. The national debate over slavery intensified and became more divisive as even those who opposed the practice disagreed over how best to eliminate it.

 

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"Negro Slavery in Massachusetts"

publisher   Essex Institute
author   Robert Rantoul, Sr. (1832-1922)
date   1887
location   Salem, Massachusetts
height   9.5"
width   6.0"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Books/Booklet
accession #   #L98.053


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