Apr 16, 2013 - Sale 2310

Sale 2310 - Lot 189

Price Realized: $ 270
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(MISSISSIPPI.) Wells, James M. The Chisholm Massacre: A Picture of "Home Rule" in Mississippi. 9 plates. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor wear; internally clean. Chicago, 1877

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The story of a judge who was murdered, along with his family, for standing up to the Ku Klux Klan. One of the illustrations depicts a lynching. Work, Negro Bibliography, page 376.