Why work for the slave?
By: [by Nathaniel Southard]
Contributors: American Anti-Slavery Society
Series: Slavery and anti-slavery: a transnational archive. Part 2: Slave trade in the Atlantic world; Slavery & anti-slavery
Publisher: Published by the American Anti-slavery Society
Published: 1838
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Slavery; Slave trade; Fugitive slaves
Notes: Title from cover.

Two wood-engravings of fugitive slaves on p. 5.

Issued in illustrated wrappers.

Wood-engraving on front cover: A woman escaping from slavery.

Cover p. [2]-4 with additional text.

Two states noted. State A: last line on p. 12: "a sense of guilt and anger."; state B (this copy) with additional 2-line paragraph: "They are trying to do this, by publications and living agents.--They need money." Both states have same damaged type: p. 12, first line "matured" with nick in ascender of "d."

Two issues noted. Issue A: in illustrated wrappers; issue B: bound with 5 other separate pamphlets, first of which is The constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society ... 1838. The two states may possibly have been bound in either manner. Possible 3rd issue without wrappers, distinct from disbound.

Reproduction of the original from the Yale University Libraries.