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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [HILDRETH, RICHARD.] The Slave, or; Archy Moore. Two volumes, 12mo, original cloth-backed boards with paper labels; ex-library theological seminary with pockets in rear and some tape on the spines; occasional light foxing Boston: Eastburn, 1836
first edition of the first american novel about a slave. Published anonymously by Richard Hildreth, "The Slave" is told in the first person by Archy Moore in the form of a slave narrative. "Mine are no silken sorrows, nor sentimental sufferings; but that stern reality of actual woe, the story of which may perhaps touch even some of those, who are every day themselves the authors of misery the same that I endured." Wright, American Fiction, Volume I, 1186.
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