HOLCOMBE, W[illiam] H.

Human Progress Since the Last Judgment, in 1757: An Essay

Cincinnati: S.S. Carpenter, E. Mendenhall, & J.F. Desilver, 1851. First Edition. 12mo (ca. 19cm.); tan printed wrappers; 16pp. Some general soil and light wear to wrappers, especially at spine, foxing throughout, old pencil notes to last leaf (blank), else Very Good and sound.

Uncommon Swedenborgian treatise by the Virginia physician who later "conducted" an infamous study on the senses in which he argued that the "[black] nervous system is not so impressible as that of white...they feel less pain" (cf. Mark M. Smith, "Getting in Touch with Slavery and Freedom," "The Journal of American History," Vol. 95, no. 2, September, 2008, p. 385).

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