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Title: Discussion on American Slavery

Author: George Thompson
Rev. Robert J. Breckinridge

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DISCUSSION
ON
AMERICAN SLAVERY,

BETWEEN

GEORGE THOMPSON, ESQ.,

AGENT OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN SOCIETY FOR THE ABOLITION OF
SLAVERY THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, AND

REV. ROBERT J. BRECKINRIDGE,

DELEGATE FROM THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
IN THE UNITED STATES, TO THE CONGREGATIONAL UNION OF ENGLAND
AND WALES:

HOLDEN IN THE

REV. DR. WARDLAW'S CHAPEL, GLASGOW, SCOTLAND,

On the Evenings of the 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th of June, 1836,

WITH AN APPENDIX.

NEGRO UNIVERSITIES PRESS
NEW YORK

Originally published in 1836
by Isaac Knapp, Boston

Reprinted from a copy in the collections
of the Brooklyn Public Library

Reprinted 1969 by
Negro Universities Press
A DIVISION OF GREENWOOD PRESS, INC.
NEW YORK

SBN 8371-2766-1

PRINTED IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

INTRODUCTION.

The following were the preliminary steps connected with the Discussion
reported in the succeeding pages:--

Mr. BRECKINRIDGE'S Letter, expressing his willingness to meet Mr.
THOMPSON at Glasgow, was occasioned by the following passage in Mr.
THOMPSON'S Letter, which appeared in the _London Patriot_, in reply to
the extracts inserted in that Journal, from the work published by the
Rev. Drs. COX and HOBY, entitled, "The Baptists in America":--

"In the mean time, I am ready to