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Title: Three Prize Essays on American Slavery

Author: R. B. Thurston
A.C. Baldwin
Timothy Williston

Release Date: May 19, 2010 [EBook #32422]

Language: English

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Liberty or Slavery; the Great National Question.

THREE PRIZE ESSAYS

ON

AMERICAN SLAVERY.

"THE TRUTH IN LOVE."

BOSTON:

CONGREGATIONAL BOARD OF PUBLICATION.

1857.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by

SEWALL HARDING,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:

ALLEN AND FARNHAM, STEREOTYPERS AND PRINTERS.

PREMIUM OFFERED.

A benevolent individual, who has numerous friends and acquaintances both
North and South, and who has had peculiar opportunities for learning the
state and condition of all sections of the nation, perceiving the danger
of our national Institutions, and deeply impressed with a sense of the
importance, in this time of peril, of harmonizing Christian men through
the country, by kind yet faithful exhibitions of truth on the subject
now agitating the whole community, offered a premium of $100 for the
best Essay on the subject of Slavery, fitted to influence the great body
of Christians through the land.

The call was soon responded to by nearly fifty writers, whose
manuscripts were examined by the distinguished committee appointed by
the Donor, whose award has been made, as their certificate, here
annexed, will show.

PREMIUM AWARDED.

The undersigned, appointed a Committee to award a premium of one hundred
dollars, offered by a benevolent individual, for the best Essay on the
subject of Slavery, "adapted to receive the approbation of Evangelical
Christians generally," have had under examination more than forty
competing manuscr