Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 228

Price Realized: $ 168
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Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(FREEMASONS.) HAYDEN, LEWIS. Caste Among Masons: Address before the Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Accepted Masons of the State of Massachusetts at the Festival of St John the Evangelist, December 27, 1865, by Lewis Hayden, Grand Master. 56 pages: being the first part only; lacks the remaining 22 pages of the second part. sold as is. Boston: Edward S. Coombs, 1866

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first edition.In the summer of 1865, Lewis Hayden, ex-slave and leading Boston Mason, traveled through the South in order to organize lodges among the newly freed. Lewis met with a great deal of opposition. There were many who "are of that class, and that class only of Masons who believe in the doctrine that none but such as are freeborn can or ought to receive the benefits of our order." This first portion of the pamphlet provides some early history of the order.