"THE MOST IMPORTANT COURT VICTORY FOR THE ANTISLAVERY MOVEMENT OF THE 1830S"
(CONSTITUTION) (SHAW, Lemuel) . Case of the Slave-Child Med… Commonwealth vs. Aves. Boston, 1836.
First edition of the substantive 1836 Report of the Massachusetts "Case of the Slave-Child… Commonweath vs. Aves," with the complete "arguments for counsels for both sides… and the complete opinion of Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw" in a decisive and "powerful antislavery precedent" to be countered nearly two decades later by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1857 Dred Scott case, in original self-wrappers. $3500.
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