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Case of the Slave-Child Med... Commonwealth vs. Aves

"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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Resolved, that the Commonwealth be divided into eight districts

RARE 1790 BROADSIDE, WITH PRINTED SIGNATURE OF JOHN HANCOCK

HANCOCK, John. Resolved, that the Commonwealth be divided into eight districts. Boston: 1790.

Original printed broadside, signed in type by John Hancock, then Governor of Massachusetts, the 1790 resolution dividing the state into eight districts for electing representatives to the first United States Congress. $3000.

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Constitution of the State of Massachusetts

"THE OLDEST FUNCTIONING WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD"

(MASSACHUSETTS) (CONSTITUTION) ADAMS, John. Constitution of the State of Massachusetts. Boston, 1805.

First edition of the 1780 Massachusetts Constitution—"one of the great enduring documents of the American Revolution"—to be published together in one volume with the U.S. Constitution, the Declaration of Independence and Washington's 1796 Farewell Address, in original boards. $1200.

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