Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 107

Price Realized: $ 1,080
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
IN THE SCARCE BARTHÉ DUST JACKET (AFRICA--LIBERIA.) SCHUYLER, GEORGE. Slaves Today, a Story of Liberia. 8vo, original cloth in a dust jacket designed by artist Richmond Barthé; some slight fading to the cloth, dust jacket with a few shallow chips to the head of the spine and a chip from the tip of the rear panel. New York, 1931
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George Schuyler, then correspondent for the Pittsburgh Courier traveled to Liberia where he researched this book on the shocking conditions in the Black republic. Liberia, founded as a refuge for ex-slaves, had descended into open slavery under a government so corrupt that the League of Nations had ordered a special investigation of the officials there.