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Dr. Joseph Priestley... A slave insurrection...



Item # 686805

September 21, 1791

COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, Boston, Sept. 21, 1791  

* Joseph Priestley Riots
* Birmingham, England
* Religious Dissenters


The front page has a lengthy: "Dr. Priestley's Letter To the Inhabitants of the Town of Birmingham" concerning the recent riot there, signed in type: J. Priestley. Joseph Priestley is credited with discovering oxygen.
Page 2 has: "Western Territory" with a Pittsburgh dateline. Also: "Insurrection of the Negroes in the French West Indies" which is quite detailed.
Four pages, very nice condition.

Category: American