1849 GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH. The Maniac and Other Poems on Slavery, Mental Illness, &c. Jonathan Edwards and printed on quality acid

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A Sermon Preached in the Arch Street Church

Being Faithfully Translated into English for the Promoting of Primitive Christianity

1849 GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH. The Maniac and Other Poems on Slavery, Mental Illness, &c. Jonathan Edwards and printed on quality acidA very nice first edition of the excellent poems of one of the quieter of the transcendentalists and anti slavery, pro suffrage, social reformers of his age. George Shepard Burleigh [1821 1903] was a well known, though less oratorically prone friend of many of the great minds in the movements of the time. More sensitive, he found his voice in pen, first editing The Anti Slavery Hymnal [1842] and then issuing this, his first volume of poetry. In it, he