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(BIOGRAPHY.) MOTT, A[BIGAIL]. Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color, To Which is Added a Selection of Pieces of Poetry. 408 pages. Small thick 8vo, original full sheep; worn, front cover partially detached. Contemporary ownership signature on the front free endpaper. New York: Mahlon Day, 1838
probable third or fourth edition with the ownership signature of abolitionist solomon barton from upstate New York. Mott's is one the earliest attempts at chronicling the lives of noted people of color, the first edition appearing in 1826. But unlike the Abbe Gregoire's Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties of the Negro (New York, 1810), which chronicled the lives of such figures as Phillis Wheatley and Toussaint L'Ouverture, Mott included sketches of the lives of ordinary people as well. The story of "Poor Sarah" was far more likely to touch the hearts of potential converts to the cause of abolition than that of Toussaint, or Phillis Wheatley, the poetess from Boston. Mott's book is divided into three sections: the biographical "sketches," a section of anecdotal pieces and finally a collection of poetry.
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