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Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 54



2. A Kentuckian, “American Slavery vs. Human Liberty,” Quarterly Anti-Slavery Magazine 2 (October 1836): 22-40.


Comparison of a system of government based on slavery with a system of government based on political despotism. The author argues that “the present system of American Slavery is worse in itself than any existing political despotism, i.e., it contains the despotic principle in a purer state” (emphasis in original).