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HISTORY
OF
AMERICAN ABOLITIONISM;
Its Four Great Epochs,
EMBRACING NARRATIVES OF THE
ORDINANCE OF 1787,ABOLITION RIOTS,
COMPROMISE OF 1820,SLAVE RESCUES,
ANNEXATION OF TEXAS,COMPROMISE OF 1850,
MEXICAN WAR,KANSAS BILL OF 1854,
WILMOT PROVISO,JOHN BROWN INSURRECTION, 1859,
NEGRO INSURRECTIONS,VALUABLE STATISTICS,
&c., &c., &c.
TOGETHER WITH A
HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY.
(ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN THE NEW YORK HERALD.)
BY F. G. DE FONTAINE.
NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & Co. 1861.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one, By F. G. de FONTAINE, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.
CHAS. CRASKE, Stereotyper.
BARTON & SON, Printers, 111 Fulton Street, N. Y.