“
and returns him many thanks for the pamphlet he has been so kind as to send him, & particularly for the partialities expressed
toward himself. he concurs sincerely in the general sentiments of the pamphlet & can say with truth that no man in the United
States more ardently wishes to see some plan adopted for relieving us from this moral reproach, & at the same time preventing
the physical & political consequences of a mixture. among the latter will certainly be a second chapter of the history of
S
t Domingo.
”
Dr. George Buchanan of Baltimore was born in 1763 and died in 1808.
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J. 3. WEBSTER,
Noah.
Effects of slavery, on morals and industry. By Noah Webster, Jun. Esq. Counsellor at law and member of the Connecticut Society for the Promotion of Freedom . . .
Hartford (Connecticut): printed by
Hudson and
Goodwin,
m.dcc.xciii
. [1793.]
E446 .W385
8vo. 28 leaves.
Evans 26448.
Trumbull 1598.
Ford, E. E. F.,
Noah Webster, page 526.
Rebound in buckram in 1912. At the foot of the title-page is written:
Sold in London by Cha
s. Dilly
[the rest cut off by binder].
Jefferson’s
Notes on the State of Virginia
was one of the source books for this pamphlet; the references are given in the footnotes.
Other works by Webster occur in this catalogue. This appears to be Jefferson’s copy. It is no. 3 in his list and has the number
3 in ink on the title-page in the manner of all his bound volumes of pamphlets.
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4. TUCKER,
St. George.
A Dissertation on slavery: with a proposal for the gradual abolition of it, in the State of Virginia. By St. George Tucker, professor of law in the University of William and Mary, and one of the judges of the General Court, in Virginia . . .
Philadelphia: printed for
Mathew Carey,
1796.
E445 .V8 T89
8vo. 53 leaves: A-N
4, O
1.
Sabin 97375.
Evans 31319.
Contains references to Jefferson’s
Notes on the State of Virginia
.
St. George Tucker, 1752-1827, jurist, a native of Bermuda, emigrated in his late teens to Virginia, where he eventually married the widow of
John Randolph. This Dissertation, advocating the emancipation of the children of slave mothers, was reprinted in Philadelphia
in 1861.
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5. VOLNEY,
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de.
Volney’s Answer to Doctor Priestley, on his pamphlet entitled, “Observations upon the increase of infidelity . . .;
[
punc. sic
--
Ed.
]
Philadelphia,
1797.
This tract has already been described, no. 1679.
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J. 198
Pamphlets English. 1779-91.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 101, page 184, as above.
Five pamphlets bound together for Jefferson in one volume, 8vo., half calf, repaired, the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate
preserved under the new endpaper. New labels on the back lettered:
Political /
Pamphlets. /
Vol. 27. / The tracts numbered serially on the title-pages.
JA36 .P8 vol. 27
On the flyleaf Jefferson has listed the titles as follows:
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Opposition mornings with Betty’s remarks.
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a fragment on an Irish association.
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a fragment of 1785. on Pitt’s administration & Hastings’ impeachment.
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Richards’s Review of Noble’s memoirs of the house of Cromwell.
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the Constitution of Poland of 1791.
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