Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 154

Price Realized: $ 360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(ART.) LAWRENCE, JACOB. CLARKE, JOHN HENRIK. The Middle Passage: Our Holocaust. Illustration by Jacob Lawrence. 8vo, original string-bound with surgical silk by the publisher, Doctor Walter O. Evans. Detroit, 1991

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first edition, limited to 150 copies, signed by both author and illustrator. It is calculated that millions of Africans were torn from their homeland during the period of the Atlantic Slave Trade, fully a third of them perished during the horrendous "Middle Passage."