Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 71

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CLARKE, LEWIS AND MILTON. Narratives of Lewis and Milton Clarke, sons of a Soldier of the Revolution, during a Captivity of more than Twenty Years among the Slaveholders of Kentucky, one of the So-called Christian States of North America. Dictated by Themselves. Frontispiece. 144 pages. Small 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; binding skewed with some wear to the spine extremities; a few stains in the text; tissue-guard foxed. Boston, 1846

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second edition. A first edition was published in 1845, but this only contained the account of Lewis Clarke. The present edition recounts the story of both light-skinned brothers and how they were kidnapped and sold into slavery.