Bondage: A Moral Institution, Sanctioned by the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, and the Preaching and Practice of the Saviour and His Apostles. By a Southern Farmer.
Macon, GA: Griffin & Purse, 1837. 78 pp.; the frontispiece is ostensibly wanting; original printed green wrappers; front wrapper trimmed in the fore-margin, back wrapper becoming loose and chipped in the gutter; all else good and sound. "A bold attack on the Northern Abolitionists and a clever example of Southern reasoning" (Anderson Galleries). Goodspeed attributes the authorship to "G. Capers." Both Howes and DeRenne, neither of whom list an author, call for a frontispiece. Sabin does not, nor was a frontispiece noted in either the Goodspeed copy or the copy sold at Anderson Galleries in 1919. The digitized copy made by archive[dot]org does not have a frontispiece, nor do the Harvard or University of California copies digitized by Hathi Trust. It is perhaps likely that the frontispiece was not issued in all copies, and perhaps in rather few copies, as not one of the 19 OCLC records mentions a frontispiece either. Capers (ca. 1785 - ca. 1869) was born in South Carolina and ran a plantation in Beaufort County. An account of him by his grandson, Gabriel Richard Ellis, written in about 1904, notes he "was the owner of slaves and a large plantation in the state of South Carolina and was surrounded with every comfort of life. He was a local preacher in the M.E. Church, South, and a man who for many years occupied the highest position in the life of the Methodist Church. Through reverses, he was reduced to penury but still held on to his Christian integrity." American Imprints 43296; DeRenne, v. 2, p. 453; Howes B-594; Sabin 6291. Not in Afro-Americana. SCARCE. Item #100000
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