ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER Archives

The American Slave Code in Theory and Practice: its Distinctive Features Shown by Its Statutes, Judicial Decisions, and Illustrative Facts

Octavo. ix, 10-431 [1]pp. Original brown cloth boards with debossed decor on covers, gilt lettering on spine. Extensive treatment of the American Slave Code by the abolitionist and cofounder of the New York Abolitionist Society in 1833. Part one elaborates on the Relation of "Master and Slave" in twenty-three chapters, part two on the "Relations of the Slave to Society and to Civil Government" in eight chapters, part three on "Relations of the Slave Code to the Liberties of the Free" in three chapters. Summarization and review in the Concluding Chapter. Binding with some wear along edges and front and back cover held together by black library tape. Library plate on inside front cover. Library blind stamp on title page with inked numbers. Library stamp on verso of title page. Lightly starting at page 71. Library blind stamp on last printed page, and library pocket with card on inside back cover.