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Reception of George Thompson in Great Britain. Compiled from Various British Publications

1836rif. 1691Boston: Isaac Knapp 1836. About very good. xvi13-238pp. 12mo. Original publisher's blue boards with black sheep spine gilt. Boards rubbed corners and spine moderately worn. Text lightly foxed. Scarce work addressing the anti-slavery work of George Thompson following his visit to America. Thompson 1804-1878 was British lecturer and reformer who worked as a commercial clerk. "Thompson first came to prominence in 1831 when he was recruited by the London Anti-Slavery Society's Agency Committee as an itinerant lecturer. In the run up to the Emancipation Act of 1833 he became the most effective British anti-slavery lecturer since Thomas Clarkson. With the struggle against British slavery apparently won Thompson was instrumental in reorienting anti-slavery effort towards the Americas and particularly the United States. . In 1834 he encountered the charismatic American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. Recognizing Thompson's talent Garrison invited him to travel to the United States with his growing family to labour there on behalf of the enslaved people of America" - DNB. Thompson employed sarcasm and vitriol in his orations attacking anti-abolitionist sentiment across the northern states. In the process he failed to make very many friends or converts and alienated those with more moderate views. "Opponents attacked him as a foreign interloper and an anti-American agitator. They also discovered a scandal in Thompson's past alleging that in 1829 he had absconded with £80 embezzled from his employer. His supporters angrily rejected this charge though Thompson later privately admitted it was true he eventually repaid the sum in full. Hostility increasingly turned violent and in fear of his life he was smuggled out of the country in October 1835 returning to a hero's welcome in Britain" - DNB. This work is a rebuttal made by Thompson's American supporters aggregating information from British sources to defend his good name and abolitionist efforts after fleeing America for his homeland. It includes some of Thompson's speeches on slavery in America given before audiences in Scotland and England and discusses his work with the American Anti-Slavery Society. Though there are a handful of institutional copies the work is scarce on the market and does not appear in auction records over the pasty forty years. Sabin 9324. American Imprints 36449. Isaac Knapp unknown

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Reception of George Thompson in Great Britain. Compiled from Various British Publications

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House of Representatives Jan. 19 1865 -- Laid on the Table and Ordered to Be Printed. Resolutions of the State of Texas Concerning Peace Reconstruction and Independence caption title

1865rif. 4902Richmond Va.: January 19 1865. Very good. 3pp. printed on a single folded sheet. Minor toning and wear. A defiant screed issued by the Confederate House of Representative in January 1865 printing eight resolutions by the Texas Legislature passed in November 1864 to be presented to the President of the Confederate States should a "re-union" between the Confederacy and the Union occur at the end of the Civil War. Paramount among the Texas House's concerns is their insistence that an amendment be made to the U.S. Constitution that "will forever guarantee the institution of African slavery in the States in this Confederacy." The third resolution prints a familiar refrain in which the Texas House argues that their secession from the Union was not motivated "upon any questions such as the mere preservation of the slave property of their citizens" but rather in order to "preserve their freedom and their sovereignty" i.e. state's rights. Further in this same resolution the Texas legislature warns that they "are still unwavering in their resolution to preserve their freedom and their sovereignty without which all else is valueless." Other resolutions cover trade with foreign powers the South's unfavorable opinion of Abraham Lincoln "a Chief Magistrate with the purpose that he should destroy our liberties in disregard to the Constitution" the South's inability to accept reconciliation with the North and proposes that any end to the Civil War must begin with the U.S. government "making their proposition to the Government of the Confederate States which alone can entertain it." Resolution five contains fiery language cataloguing the "inhumanities of this war" which concludes with an unsurprising but nonetheless eye-opening accusation: "Lying to themselves and pretending to the rest of the world that they are fighting the battle of freedom for four millions of happy and contented negroes they are attempting the enslavement of eight millions of freedmen. With devilish mockery of philanthropy. they have deluded and dragged these negroes from their comfortable homes to use them as screens from our weapons in the day of battle and they have sent them by thousands to painful death by neglect exposure and starvation. January 19 unknown