![[3727490] A Defence of Southern Slavery, Against the Attacks of Henry Clay and Alex’r Campbell: In Which Much of the False Philanthropy and Mawkish Sentimentalism of the Abolitionists Is Met and Refuted…. By a. Southern Clergyman, Iveson L. Brookes.](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727490.jpg?auto=webp&v=1540329071)
A Defence of Southern Slavery, Against the Attacks of Henry Clay and Alex’r Campbell: In Which Much of the False Philanthropy and Mawkish Sentimentalism of the Abolitionists Is Met and Refuted…
Mawkish Abolitionists
Brookes, a significant Southern slave-owner, uses these pages to assert the divine order of master and slave as unassailable while attacking Henry Clay and Alexander Cambpell and decrying the “false philanthropy” and “mawkish sentimentalism of the abolitionists.”¹
Description: A Defence of Southern Slavery, Against the Attacks of Henry Clay and Alex’r Campbell: In Which Much of the False Philanthropy and Mawkish Sentimentalism of the Abolitionists Is Met and Refuted…
Hamburg, [South Carolina]: Robinson and Carlisle, 1851. 46, [2]pp, largely unopened. First Edition. 8vo. Self-wrappers, stitched, as issued. Minute tear above “of” to title-leaf; some toning to same and throughout. A very good copy.
[3727490]Note. 1. “Iveson Lewis Brookes, teacher, Baptist minister, and planter, was born in Rockingham County, N.C. Brookes, a 1819 graduate of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., amassed, through marriage and purchase, considerable holdings of land and slaves in Jasper and Jones counties in Georgia and Edgefield County and other locations in South Carolina.” [Iveson L. Brookes Papers, 1785-1868, per UNC] Howes B-811. Sabin 81954; Work, p314 Blockson 9351.
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