1860 CONFEDERATE ANTI-SLAVERY TEXT. The Impending Crisis of the South. Rare in Fine Wraps. Civil War The Offspring of Mercy

The Offspring of Mercy

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1860 CONFEDERATE ANTI-SLAVERY TEXT. The Impending Crisis of the South. Rare in Fine Wraps. Civil War The Offspring of MercyA finely preserved example of one of the most significant anti slavery texts to originate in the South. Helper was a pragmatist. He argued slavery was a short term fix for the South that would, in the long term lead to economic decline. He further argued that slavery and slave holding were injurious to non slaveholding whites economically and should therefore be abolished. It became a significant and influential abolitionist text, was used extensively