(CROMWELL LIBRARY) The Confession Trial and Execution of Nat

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(CROMWELL LIBRARY.) The Confession, Trial and Execution of Nat Turner, the Negro Insurgent. American Negro Monographs, Volume I, #1. 15 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers, rebacked; minimal wear to contents. Washington: American Negro Monographs Co., April 1910

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Editor John Wesley Cromwell issued this new printing of Nat Turner's confession as the first in his American Negro Monographs. 2 in OCLC, and none known at auction. This example comes from his personal files.

Provenance: family of author and activist John Wesley Cromwell (1846-1927) through his daughter Otelia Cromwell (1874-1972), a noted literary scholar; granddaughter Adelaide M. Cromwell (1919-2019), an important sociologist.