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Title: An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism
With reference to the duty of American females

Author: Catharine E. Beecher

Release Date: July 25, 2008 [EBook #26123]

Language: English

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AN ESSAY

ON

SLAVERY AND ABOLITIONISM,

WITH REFERENCE TO THE

DUTY OF AMERICAN FEMALES.

BY

CATHARINE E. BEECHER.

Philadelphia:
HENRY PERKINS, 134 CHESTNUT STREET.
PERKINS & MARVIN, BOSTON.

1837.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by _Henry
Perkins_, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.

L. ASHMEAD AND CO. PRINTERS.

PREFACE.

THE following are the circumstances which occasioned the succeeding
pages. A gentleman and a friend, requested the writer to assign reasons
why he should not join the Abolition Society. While preparing a reply
to this request, MIS