Jun 27, 2024 - Sale 2675

Sale 2675 - Lot 272

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Julia Griffiths, editor. Autographs for Freedom. 12 portrait plates including William Wells Brown and Frederick Douglass. 309 pages, plus [5] ad leaves. Large 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth pictorial, minimal wear; minor foxing, leaf 269-270 worn and detached, lacking the leaf with the full-page wood engraving at page 276. Auburn, NY, 1854

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The second compilation of essays and poems issued by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society. Many of the pieces are illustrated with facsimile signatures. Includes "Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce" by William Wells Brown; "The Intellectual, Moral, and spiritual Condition of the Slave" by John Mercer Langston; "A Time of Justice Will Come" by Gerrit Smith; two pieces by Charles Lewis Reason; "On Freedom" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; an extract from a speech by Frederick Douglass; "A Day Spent at Playford Hall" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; and much more. Afro-Americana 4369; Blockson 9205.