NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS.


HUMPHREY, HENAN. Indian Rights & our Duties. An Address delivered at Amherst, Hartford, etc. December, 1829, [Published as:] The Indian Advocate No 1, February, 1932. [New York:] Stereotyped for the Association for diffusing information on the Subject of Indian Rights, 1831. 16mo (177 x 104 mm). Publisher's printed wrappers for "The Indian Advocate No 1" printing the "Constitution of the Association for diffusing information on the Subject of Indian Rights," 4 pp, as covers, stamps to cover, "SAMPLE" and "PAMPHLET [illegible]." Provenance: Margaret W. Cushing ("Gift" stamp, dated Jan 26, 1938).RARE "JOURNAL" ISSUE OF HUMPHREY'S ADDRESS. Reverend Humphrey was president of Amherst College and his address in 1829 came in the midst of the discovery of gold in Georgia and just a year before Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Act of 1830. See Sabin 33791.