A lot of two (2) very rare pro-slavery pamphlets. Works include:

1. Amor Patriae, pseud. [Andrew Lane (1796-1862)]. The Blasphemy of Abolitionism Exposed: Servitude and the Rights of the South, Vindicated. A Bible Argument. New York: N.p., 1850.

8vo, 24 pages. Rebound in modern red cloth, spine gilt lettered. FIRST EDITION. LCP, Afro-Americana 562; Sabin 1341. 

Provenance: Milton S. Carothers (1982-1999, bookplate to inner front board, numbered 2492). 

A fascinating work published under the pseudonym Amor Patriae (Latin for "Love of One's Country"), a pro-slavery advocate who wrote several letters to President James K. Polk in addition to his publications. 

He first began his correspondence with President Polk in a letter dated 25 July 1845, in which he urgently warned that the growing opposition to slavery endangered the nation. "After his initial missive of 1845, he sent three more in 1845, two in 1847, and one in 1848. He continued to write pseudonymously for publication, too, becoming known both to the president and to the public as a staunch supporter of slavery." (Cohen, p. 269)

The identity of Amor Patriae, long a mystery, was uncovered as Andrew Lane (1796-1862) by historian Michael David Cohen, who amusingly writes: "It is rude to taunt a president. But it is dangerous to taunt a historian." See his excellent article, "James K. Polk and the Mystery of Amor Patriae," for a detailed history of Lane and his pro-slavery activism (The New England Quarterly, Vol. 86, No. 2 (June 2013), pp. 266-292). 

Lane, like many of his pro-slavery contemporaries, used Biblical arguments to justify slavery. He was more audacious than most, however, going so far as to claim that God had mandated slavery and that Northern states were thus in violation of God's will. He suggested not only that Northern states should legalize slavery on their soil, but that the Atlantic slave trade should be renewed. 

In this pamphlet, an expansion of an earlier publication in 1848 (hence the "new edition" assertion on the cover), he prognosticates the coming civil war, criticizes "ambitious priests," puts forth a Biblical defense of the return of fugitive slaves, dismisses claims that the Declaration of Independence should include slaves, and advocates for slavery in California.

VERY RARE. Last offered at auction in 1946 as part of the Midland's Rare Slavery Auction. From the slavery and abolition collection of Rev. Milton S. Carothers, book collector and campus minister at Florida State University (1982-1999).

2. Rev. J.H. Thornwell. The Rights and the Duties of Masters. A Sermon Preached at the Dedication of a Church, Erected in Charleston. Charleston, South Carolina: Walker & James, 1850.

8vo, 51 pages. Original wrappers, disbound. 

James Henley Thornwell (1812-1862) was a South Carolina Presbyterian preacher and staunch proponent of slavery, preaching in favor of chattel slavery and secession. A true fire-eater, he decried abolitionists as "atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, [and] Jacobins," while painting the rosy picture of enslavers as "friends of order and regulated freedom." This uncommon sermon was preached shortly before the Fugitive Slave Law went into effect. 

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The Rights and the Duties - front wrapper detached. Dampstain affecting later pages.