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Virginia silhouettes ; contemporary letters concerning Negro slavery in the state of Virginia, to which is appended, A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it in the state of Virginia

Title: Virginia silhouettes ; contemporary letters concerning Negro slavery in the state of Virginia, to which is appended, A dissertation on slavery with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it in the state of Virginia / collected and edited by Mrs. George P. Coleman.
Author: Coleman, Mary Haldane Begg, 1875-1967
Publication: Richmond, Va. : Press of the Dietz Printing Co., 1934.

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Description

vii, 59 pages, 3 leaves, 64 pages : frontispiece (facsimiles); 21 cm

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Note

"Of this, the first edition, 235 copies have been privately printed and bound, and only one hundred and ninety-five copies are for general distribution." This copy not numbered.
"A dissertation on slavery: with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the state of Virginia. By St. George Tucker." (3 l., 64 p. at end) has special t.-p., a reproduction of the 1796 t.-p. It is reprinted from a copy containing corrections and marginal notes by the author.

Contents

Papers of St. George Tucker.--Papers of Beverley Tucker.--Papers of Cynthia Beverly Tucker.--A dissertation on slavery, by St. George Tucker.

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35000842

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Columbia University Libraries