PARALLEL BETWEEN INTEMPERANCE AND THE SLAVE-TRADE. AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT AMHERST COLLEGE, JULY 4, 1828. / BY HEMAN HUMPHREY, D.D. PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE.; PUBLISHED AT THE REQUEST OF THE STUDENTS.

Humphrey, Heman (1779-1861).

Published by J.S. and C. Adams, printers., 1828., Amherst [Mass.]:, 1828

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8vo. 40pp. Disbound pamphlet. Spine with two old staples. Title and final page soiled, else clean. See images. Good. Rev. Humphrey vividly describes the brutality of slavery as such: ?The principal ingredients of suffering and crime in the slave-trade, are the infernal ambush?the midnight attack and conflagration of peaceful villages?the massacre of helpless age and imploring infancy?the stripes and manacles and thousand unutterable cruelties inflicted between the place of capture and embarcation?the horrors of the middle passage?the shambles prepared for the faminestricken survivors on a foreign shore-the separation of husbands and wives,' mothers and children, under the hammer and branding-iron-the mortality of seasoning, amid stripes and hunger and malaria? But he goes on to say: ?intemperance is worse than the slave-trade?is heavier with wo and guilt and death?both being ?laid in the balances together.? Shoemaker 33616 - Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25645 Rare. Seller Inventory # 003109

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Title: PARALLEL BETWEEN INTEMPERANCE AND THE ...

Publisher: J.S. and C. Adams, printers., 1828., Amherst [Mass.]:

Publication Date: 1828

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good