AN HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE EARLY MOVEMENT IN ILLINOIS FOR THE LEGALIZATION OF SLAVERY, READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY, DECEMBER 5TH, 1864.
Chicago: Fergus Printing Company, 1876. 30, [1], [1 blank] pp. Original printed wrappers, a fine and unopened copy. "The Chicago Historical Society was organized April 24, 1856." Graff 436. Brown was its first president and an authority on the early history of Illinois. After the 1820 Missouri Compromise, Illinois "was..... More