Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 195

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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CROMWELL LIBRARY.) T. McCants Stewart. Liberia: The Americo-African Republic. Text illustrations. 107, [1] pages. 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth, backstrip toned with moderate wear at extremities; front hinge split, a few pencil marks in margins, lacking rear free endpaper, otherwise minimal wear to contents; signed "Adelaide Cromwell Hill" on front pastedown and "Adelaide M. Cromwell on flyleaf. New York, 1886
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Thomas McCants Stewart (1853-1923) was born into a free Black family in South Carolina, became a lawyer and minister, and then taught at Liberia College from 1883 to 1886. He later returned to Liberia from 1911 to 1914 and served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court; when he died on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he was buried in a Liberian flag. This work offers a frank but generally sympathetic picture of Liberia to prospective emigrants. Afro-Americana Supplement 2212; Blockson 1496; Work, page 107.

Provenance: part of the family library of author and activist John Wesley Cromwell (1846-1927) and bearing two signatures of his granddaughter Adelaide M. Cromwell (1919-2019), an important sociologist.