[Slavery] [De Bow, James D. B.]

[cover title] The Interest in Slavery of the Southern Non-Slaveholder. The Right of Peaceful Secession. Slavery in the Bible [1860 Association. Tract, No. 5]

Charleston: Steam-Power Presses of Evans & Cogswell, 1860. Disbound. Very Good binding. Item #9565

Octavo. 30, [2 (blank)] pp. First edition. Removed from binding. Vertical crease from old fold; a few instances of pencil bracketing; De Bow's name is penciled in on the title page by a later hand. Generally, a well preserved copy.

One of a series of pamphlet issued by Charleston's "1860 Association," a group of wealthy slave-holders who moved to promote immediate secession. In this tract De Bow, a Charlestonian by birth who was living and publishing pro-Southern essays in his New Orleans, Commercial Review of the South and Southwest, offers and economic argument about the "benefits" of slavery on the Southern worker's wages and working condition. De Bow's essay is followed by extracts from an article on the rights of secession as well as lengthy extracts from a sermon by Rev. Henry J. Van Dyke, "The Character and Influence of Abolitionism," in which this Northern pastor argues that abolitionism has no Biblical foundation and that its principles are misrepresented for men's gain. Uncommon in commerce. Parrish & Willingham 5330; Confederate Hundred 28; Work p. 399; Afro-Americana 5157; Turnbull III, p. 298.

Price: $575.00