1810 THE BOOK THAT ENDED SLAVERY IN AMERICA. Rare Book on Race Owned by Thirteenth Amendment Swing Vote. Hymns Watchword and Truth

Watchword and Truth

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1810 THE BOOK THAT ENDED SLAVERY IN AMERICA. Rare Book on Race Owned by Thirteenth Amendment Swing Vote. Hymns Watchword and TruthWhat a storied little volume. The text of the present volume is that of Samuel Stanhope Smith [1751 1819], Presbyterian divine and later President of Princeton. At the Philosophical Society in 1787, he delivered what was, for the time, a significantly progressive set of lectures with regard to the origin and meaning of race, as well as theological and practical proposals for the future. He argued, controversially for the time, that race was not "set,"