(SLAVERY ABOLITION) Stationery with the famed Am I Not a Wo

Sale 2600 - Lot 222

Price Realized: $ 1,500

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Stationery with the famed "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister" engraving by Patrick Reason. Autograph Letter Signed by George Russell ("G.R.") to stepmother Amelia Russell of Kingston, MA and other family members, on printed letterhead "Engraved by P. Reason, a Colored Young Man of the City of New York, 1835." 3 pages, 10 x 7 3/4 inches, plus address panel on final blank bearing Boston postmark; mailing folds, light offsetting, minor wear. New York, 9 May 1836 (on 1835 letterhead)

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This engraving was produced by Patrick Henry Reason (1816-1892) of New York, an early Black engraver. The image went on to be used frequently by the American Anti-Slavery Society, including in the 1836 book "The Fountain for Every Day in the Year," and sometimes appeared with the caption "Am I Not a Woman and a Sister."

This letterhead was used by a Boston merchant visiting New York. The contents include short notes to more than a dozen friends and family members, but nothing relating to the abolition movement.