(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Bradford Sarah H Harriet the Moses o

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EXPANDED AND REVISED EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Bradford, Sarah H. Harriet, the Moses of her People. 171 pages. Small 8vo, publisher's gilt cloth, very light spotting, minor wear; hinge split after page 10; inscribed on title page "S.H. Ver Plank 1901 from the Authoress" with 1952 ownership inscription on flyleaf. New York, 1901

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An expanded edition, with a new section, "Some Additional Incidents in the Life of Harriet" on pages 133-153. This copy is inscribed by the author to her nephew Samuel Hopkins Ver Plank (1829-1909), a retired bank cashier from Geneva, NY who had documented a Fugitive Slave Law kidnapping in his home town as a young man (see Grover, Make a Way Somehow: African-American Life in a Northern Community, 1790-1965, page 34). Blockson 2982.