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Anti-Slavery Opinions

BEFORE THE YEAR 1800


READ BEFORE THE CINCINNATI LITERARY CLUB, NOVEMBER 16, 1872

By WILLIAM FREDERICK POOLE

Librarian of the Public Library of Cincinnati

To which is appended a fac simile Reprint of Dr. George Buchanan's
Oration on the Moral and Political Evil of Slavery, delivered
at a public meeting of the Maryland Society for Promoting
the Abolition of Slavery, Baltimore, July 4, 1791