An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism: With reference to the duty of American females

· 1878

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by _Henry Perkins_, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. THE following are the circumstances which occasioned the succeeding pages. A gentleman and a friend, requested the writer to assign reasons why he should not join the Abolition Society. While preparing a reply to this request, MISS GRIMKE's Address was presented, and the information communicated, of her intention to visit the North, for the purpose of using her influence among northern ladies to induce them to unite with Abolition Societies. The writer then began a private letter to Miss Grimke as a personal friend. But by the w…

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