Rice, David

SLAVERY INCONSISTENT WITH JUSTICE AND GOOD POLICY; PROVED BY A SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE CONVENTION, HELD AT DANVILLE, KENTUCKY

London: M. Gurney, 1792. First British Edition. Octavo, 24 pages; VG; disbound pamphlet, some mild wear to edges; RW consignment; shelved case 8 1/2.

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First British edition of Kentucky's first protest against slavery, delivered by Rice during the convention which was framing the constitution of Kentucky. "Holding men in slavery is the national vice of Virginia; and, while a part of that state, we were partakers of the guilt. As a separate state, we are just now come to the birth, and it depends upon our free choice, whether we shall be born in this sin, or innocent of it."

First printed in Lexington in 1792 and later that same year in Philadelphia.