1905 VIRGINIA SLAVERY. Academic Work on Status of the "Negro" Population in Colonial Virginia. George Whitefield1905 Rare Work on the Status of Black American in Virginia in the 17th and 18th Centuries. A very scarce academic work, not available in trade at the time of cataloging and none in the auction history. A very fine work investigating primary resource documents, including Colonial Charters, Laws Relating to the Import of Negroes, Slavery Laws, Case Law Involving Fugitive Slaves, Insurrection, Trials of Negroes, Regulations of Emancipation, etc., West,
Belfast: Phillips & Sons
It is descriptive of the activities and ministry of the period
that “nation shall not lift up sword against nation
though firm
Although I have been much better the last day or two
He was also a lackluster student and voted “least likely to succeed” by his fraternity
A scarce early Baptist autograph letter
it speaks of family
to his dying day:
apparently not all possess it
and is un-ransacked
A fascinating artifact