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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ---[LEE, MRS. HANNAH.] Life of Pierre Toussaint, born a Slave in St. Domingo. Portrait frontispiece. 124 pages. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth with the title decoratively stamped in gilt on the spine; some very light wear with the spine extremities lightly rubbed; frontispiece and title-page darkened; some occasional foxing. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1854
first edition, re-published several times. Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853) was born a slave in St. Domingue (now Haiti.) He came to New York as a bonded apprentice to one of the best hairdressers in the city. When his owner died in 1803, Toussaint took care of his widow, and took over the business and expanded, becoming a tremendously successful businessman--and a major philanthropist. In 1996, Pope John II declared Toussaint to be "Venerable," thus placing him in line for sainthood. His remains were moved from a lower Manhattan churchyard to St. Patrick's Cathedral soon after.
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