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"How can I help to abolish slavery?" by Chapman, Maria Weston
Page references (e.g. 001) refer to the scan numbers, not the original book's page numbers.
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No forum posts.
- fabricate a cover
(6) proofer notes mentioned that the name "American Anti-Slavery Society" is in small caps in some places, not in others. Catalog of occurrences of this name/phrase in the overall text:
- smallcaps
- 003 (3x)
- 004
- 005
- 007
- 008
- 011
- 012
- not smallcaps
- 002
- 004
- 005 (3x)
- 006 (2x)
- 007
- 008
- 009 (x2)
Note: as of 010 we've moved into the Society's Constitution.
Totals:
- smallcaps (excluding Constitution): 7
- not smallcaps: 11
Conclusion: leave as printed. Perhaps there was an intention behind this.
- cludes
- 147: buy the elixir vitæ; preferring the less, which _ex_cludes
- 148: greater, to the greater, which _in_cludes the less. Slavery can
- this is just a formatting artifact, not a misspelling
- coöperation
- 284: association. Many are in harmonious coöperation with it who have
- this is fancy typograpy... or maybe the author's descendants foudned The New Yorker
- Cudjoe
- 176: “faithful Cudjoe or Dinah,” whose strong natures blossomed
- seems to be a name related to slavery in Jamaica? Wikipedia
- vitæ
- 147: what would buy the elixir vitæ; preferring the less, which
- Latin word w/ ligature
Some inconsistencies in spelling, hyphenation, punctuation, and typography have been retained.