South Carolina on slavery... The palace for the President...

Item # 685566 THE MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE, Boston, January, 1793 Among the various articles and literary items are: "The Negro's Dying Speech" followed by "The Monthly Gazette" which has the latest foreign & domestic news, the latter headed: "American Occurrences".
Reports include, from Georgia, a grievance that: "...a bill of rights was not formed & executed previous to the adoption of the Federal Constitution...". From South Carolina has: "...passed a bill suspending the importation of negroes from Africa for 2 years & prohibited their importation from the Northern States forever."
An item from Pennsylvania notes: "...The palace building at Philadelphia for the residence of the President of the United States has already cost 11,000 pounds & the commissioners compute that 10,000 pounds is requisite in addition."
Lacking the plate called for.
Full title/contents page, complete in 64 pages, 5 1/4 by 8 1/4 inches, very nice condition.

Eighteenth century American magazines are increasingly scarce in today's market. This title was published by the famed Isaiah Thomas, the patriot printer from the Revolutionary War & founder of the American Antiquarian Society.