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[McCORD, DAVID JAMES]. Africans At Home. From the Fortcoming Number of "Southern Quarterly Review." In Advance. [Wrapper title]. [Charleston?: 1854]. 1st ed. 8vo. 28 pp. Orig. front printed wrapper. Ex-lib. copy. Wrap loose & frayed, otherwise very good. $175.00
LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, 6188. An apologist for slavery, McCord declares that the condition of Africans, even with Christianity present "the disgusting picture of a people, whose savage and shocking barbarities, and loathsome habits, and horrid crimes, are supposed to establish a condition so preferable to that of slavery to the white man, that the fleets of civilized Europe and America, are employed to maintain and perfect them in it."