1848 CASPAR MORRIS. Memoir of Abolitionist & Slave Educator, Miss Margaret Mercer. Slavery

1848 CASPAR MORRIS. Memoir of Abolitionist & Slave Educator, Miss Margaret Mercer. SlaveryMargaret Mercer [1791 1846 was a significant American abolitionist who labored to end slavery in Maryland. Although her father and both grandfathers had operated their Virginia and Maryland plantations using enslaved labor, Margaret found slavery immoral. Upon her fathers death, she inherited her father's 72 slaves. She refused to sell them, as this would necessarily disband their families, and so engaged to have them patriated to Liberia under the

Aside from some scattered foxing

attractive 1852 Bible belonged to important Texas pioneer and politician

to tame the savage

May of 1873

Sermon on Romans 5

Seven additional male photographs without autographs

Allen [Lengthy on Suffragist

The title poem

Fish for N & N Dunham

Minor tear on the upper spine

Simpson was a pioneer of Evangelical theology in the Anglican church and of congregational hymn singing

Holy Father