(AFRICA) PETERSON REV DANIEL H The Looking Glass Being a Tru

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(AFRICA.) PETERSON, REV. DANIEL H. The Looking Glass: Being a True Report and Narrative of the Life, Travels and Labors of Rev. Daniel H. Peterson, a Colored Clergyman Embracing a Period of Time from the Year 1812 to 1854, Including the Visit to Africa. Frontispiece and additional full-page wood engravings. 12mo, original gilt-pictorial red morocco-grained cloth; tips and spine rubbed with some loss to the spine extremities; two early non-authorial signatures on the front paste-down and endpaper. New York: Wright, 1854

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first edition. Peterson, the son of slaves, was apprenticed early in life as a servant and later worked as a steward on a Delaware river steamboat. He was able to save enough money to purchase his mother's freedom. Peterson's account of his trip to Africa and meetings with ex-patriot Americans forms about half of this narrative. Afro-Americana, 7658. Blockson, 8868.