(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) Bradford Sarah H Scenes in the Life

Sale 2473 - Lot 200

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Frontispiece portrait. [4], 113, [2], 118-132 pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt cloth, moderate wear, rebacked with portion of original backstrip laid down, and new morocco spine title; early owner's inscription on flyleaf; minor wear to contents, minor dampstaining and finger-soiling. Auburn, NY: W.J. Moses, 1869

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first edition of one of the most important slave narratives. The New York Public Library copy has an additional text leaf at page [115] with a half-title for the appendix, "Woman-Whipping, Ethically and Esthetically Considered" by S.M. Hopkins. This copy and others seem to be issued without this leaf. Plans have since been announced to put Tubman on the front of the $20 bill. Afro-Americana 1467; Blockson 3950.