The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870

(New York: Schocken Books, 1969). 200 x 135 mm; pictorial wraps; pp. xxxvi + (ii) + 335, incl. index. Good to very good condition. Wraps somewhat sunned; corners of upper cover a little creased. First published in 1896. This edition with a new introduction by A. Norman Klein. '"How far in a state can a recognized moral wrong safely be compromised?" This question, coming in the last paragraph of the monograph with which Harvard opened its Harvard Historical Series in 1896, clearly can have but one answer. The book demonstrates how "that system of bargaining, truckling, and compromising with a moral, political and economic monstrosity, which makes the history of our dealing with slavery in the first half of the nineteenth century so discreditable to a great people," led straight to the Civil War; and it closes with DuBois' ever-relevant words: "It behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done."' .