(FRATERNAL) DICKSON MOSES A Manual of the Knights of Tabor a

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(FRATERNAL.) DICKSON, MOSES. A Manual of the Knights of Tabor and the Daughters of the Tabernacle. Portrait frontispiece and several other illustrations. 8vo, original green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; extremities rubbed; some scribbling on the rear endpapers. St Louis, MO: The author, 1872

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the rare first edition, only one other copy is located. Moses Dickson (1824-1901) was born free in Cincinnati. After a trip through the South in 1833 he dedicated the rest of his life to ending slavery. To that end, he and a group of eleven other men founded the Order of Twelve in 1846, which was eventually absorbed by the Prince Hall lodge.