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Fourth of July in Dorchester, and Edward Everett. : Citizens of Dorchester! You have selected the ensuing Fourth of July on which to commemorate the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the settlement of your town ..
Title
Fourth of July in Dorchester, and Edward Everett. : Citizens of Dorchester! You have selected the ensuing Fourth of July on which to commemorate the two hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary of the settlement of your town ...
Published
[Dorchester, Mass.] : [publisher not identified], [1855]
Physical Description
1 sheet ([1] pages) ; 49 x 31 cm
Local Notes
BEIN BrSides 2020 75 : Manuscript note on verso: Mass. Anti Slav. doc., May 26, 1866, duplicate.
Notes
Arguing that there was no justification for celebrating anything on Independence Day at a time when "every seventh person in the land is a chattel slave," and that Edward Everett's record on slavery should have excluded him from being chosen as the orator of the day.
Dated: Dorchester, June 30, 1855.
Text in two columns; printed area measures 44.5 x 23.9 cm.
Includes poem.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 01, 2020
Subjects
Genre/Form
Broadsides.
Poems - 1855.
Also listed under
United States Massachusetts Dorchester.
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