A TREATISE ON SLAVERY. IN WHICH IS SHOWN FORTH THE EVIL OF SLAVEHOLDING BOTH FROM THE LIGHT OF NATURE AND DIVINE REVELATION. BY JAMES DUNCAN. Columbia, speak; let SLAVERY's dirge be sung "Whatsoever ye would that men should de to you, do ye even so to them; VEVAY: PRINTED AT THE INDIANA REGISTER' OFFICE. NEW YORK: RE-PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY, INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW-YORK EDITION. THE author of this work was the Rev. James Duncan, a learned and faithful minister of the Gospel in Indiana, and father of the Hon. Alexander Duncan, now member of Congress from Cincinnati. It is a matter of regret, that a letter from the West, containing some further particulars respecting the author and his labors, has been mislaid and cannot be found. However, the work will speak for itself, wherever it shall be read, and will show its author to have been a man of uncommon powers of reasoning, and of uncommon clearness of vision, for his day, on the subject of slavery and abolition. The work was first published, as the title imports, at Vevay, in the state of Indiana, in the year 1824, and was accompanied by the following RECOMMENDATION This treatise has been highly recommended by several gentlemen of Kentucky and Indiana-the publisher selects, for the present, the following letter from Jesse L. Holman, Esq. one of the judges of the supreme court of Indiana, a gentleman well known to the citizens of this and the neighboring States. “I have been favored, for a few hours, with the manuscript of a TREATISE ON SLAVERY,' by the Rev. James Duncan, and from a hasty perusal of the greater part of its contents, and the well known abilities of the author, I conceive it to be executed with a depth of thought and force of argument, that well deserves the attention of all inquirers after moral truth, and justly merits the patronage of the public." (Signed) JESSE L. HOLMAN. |