1861 FUGITIVE SLAVES. No Compromise with the South on the Issue of Fugitive Slavery. Missionary Likely issued for the 1839

Likely issued for the 1839 Centennial of the Great Awakening

this is a rather rare early American edition of Gillies' life

receiving the grace of Christ

One of the most significant texts of the earliest days of William Wilberforce's efforts to end slavery

Studies In Problem Texts: Being a Short Series of Elucidatory and Applicatory Expositions of Certain Scripture Passages which have Occasioned Perplexity

1861 FUGITIVE SLAVES. No Compromise with the South on the Issue of Fugitive Slavery. Missionary Likely issued for the 1839In 1860, a Bill was introduced before the Ohio Legislature to attempt to pressure to Ohioans to cease harboring and aiding fugitive slaves. Hitchcock is outraged and incensed. "Have we not done enough? . . . Must we pass additional [laws] . . . ? Laws which, if carried out in their spirit would inflict severe penalties upon that person who should give a cup of water, a bit of bread, or bestow a blanket upon the poor, shivering, hunted fugitive?"