(RACE RIOTS) A Thrilling Narrative from the lips of the Suff

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(RACE RIOTS.) A Thrilling Narrative from the lips of the Sufferers of the Late Detroit Riot, March 6, 1863. With the hair's breadth escapes of men, women and children, and Destruction of Colored Mens' Property, not less than $15,000.00. 24 pages. 8vo, original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Hattiesburg, Miss., 1945

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first obtainable edition, limited to 137 copies from a unique copy owned by Charles Heartman and printed in 1947. This copy not numbered. "Not in bibliographies consulted. Apparently there is nothing new under the sun, not even a race riot in Detroit," from Heartman''s description in his 1947 catalogue. The riot began over the alleged "outrages committed" on Ellen Hover, a white girl, by Thomas Faulkner, a black man.