AMERICA. - Jacob D. WHEELER. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Slavery. Being a Compilation of all the Decisions Made on that Subject, in the Several Courts of the United States, and State Courts. New York and New Orleans: Allan Pollock, Jr. and Benjamin Levy, 1837. First edition, 8vo (233 x 150mm.) Title, 1p. publisher's advertisement, 14pp. 'Table of Cases'. (Text-block cracked at p.128 and fragile, preliminaries and first leaves loose, toning, occasional creasing.) Contemporary sheep (worn). Note: scarce. One of the first digests of American law on slavery. It was initially used as a legal guide by slaveholders but came to be used by abolitionists for its descriptions of cruelty. Slavery was finally abolished in the U.S. by the 13th Amendment in 1865.