Feb 27, 2007 - Sale 2105

Sale 2105 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(JUVENILE PERIODICAL.) The Slave's Friend. Volume 1, Nos. 1-11. Woodcuts throughout. 24mo, first and last numbers incomplete; original woodcut yellow wrappers present for Nos. 2-10, rear wrapper to the first number and front wrapper only for the last number; original gilt-stamped pebble-grained cloth, rubbed, worn, partially detached from the contents; some foxing. New York: R. G. Williams, 1836

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The first year of this little magazine aimed at children. The articles, accompanied by small woodcut vignettes, discuss the cruelties of slavery and accent the humanity of the African by telling stories about little African children to whom white children could relate as equals. Shaw and Shoemaker 40127.