A Comparison Between the Prospects of Advantage in the Unsettled and Unimproved Parts of Pennsylvania/

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A Comparison Between the Prospects of Advantage in the Unsettled and Unimproved Parts of Pennsylvania/

Description

American Museum 5, January 1789. The second entry is a letter from Rush regarding James Durham, and African American slave and physician, as well as Thomas Fuller, who Rush states had an extreme aptitude for mathematics and was the "African Calculator." This issue also contains the first part of the "Rejoinder to a reply to the enquiry into the justice and policy of punishing murder by death" (see 1789.RUSH.B4 this collection)

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References

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Fox 1789(8), Fox 1789 (16), BUTTERFIELD 497-98, FOX 1789 (23)

Condition

Overall Condition

Good

Date Examined

Dec 9, 2023

Notes

title page supplied in facsimile