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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude. Full-page portrait on page [2]. 144 pages. 12mo, publisher's gilt cloth, worn and stained, professionally recased and stabilized; minor wear to contents, foxing, lacking part of front flyleaf, rear free endpaper renewed; early owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Boston: Printed for the author, 1850
First edition of the book which brought her story to the world, as edited by her friend Olive Gilbert. Afro-Americana 10462; Howes G163.
Provenance: early owner Joseph I. Mabbett (1833-1917) of Collins, Erie County, NY, son of Underground Railroad conductors Anna Griffin Mabbett and Lorenzo Mabbett.
