"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery!"

"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery!"

Item Information

Title:
"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could have conceived that thereby I was founding a land of slavery!"
Author in quotations or text abstracts:
Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de, 1757-1834
Date:
[1800?–1899?]
Format:
Ephemera
Genre:
Broadsides
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:
Antislavery movements--Massachusetts--Boston
Slavery--United States--History
Boston (Mass.)--History
Places:
Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:
1 broadside ; 106 x 76 cm.
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/70796c838
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
S.l. : s.n.
Language:
English
Notes:
Title from item.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift, family of William Lloyd Garrison, April, 1900.
Notes (date):
Date supplied by cataloger.
Notes (object):
Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy shows water damage on the right side of the sheet.
Call #:
RARE BKS Cab.23.17.7 no.22 xxb
Barcode:
39999063764151