Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 157

Price Realized: $ 358
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(NARRATIVES.) LOVEJOY, J.C. [CLARKE, LEWIS AND MILTON]. Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, during a Captivity of more than Twenty Years among the Slaveholders of Kentucky. Dictated by Themselves. Portrait frontispiece. 144 pages. 8vo, original blind and gilt-stamped cloth; occasional foxing throughout. Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846
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first edition, inscribed to amasa walker by j.c. lovejoy, "the author." One of the more popular narratives of the day, Lewis and Milton Clarke's narrative is a familiar one. The sons of a white man, their mother was his slave. Amasa Walker, the man to whom this book was inscribed, was a noted Connecticut lawyer and abolitionist.