(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) PETTIT EBER Sketches in the History

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) PETTIT, EBER. Sketches in the History of the Underground Railroad, Comprising Many Thrilling Incidents of the Escape of Fugitives from Slavery and the Perils of Those Who Aided Them. 174 pages. Tall 8vo, original gilt decorative brown cloth, rear hinge expertly repaired. A very attractive copy. Fredonia, N.Y.: McKinstry & Son, 1879

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A lovely copy of a scarce book. Pettit, a merchant associated the First Baptist Church in Fredonia N.Y., was a conductor on the UGRR. He would carry fugitive slaves under a wagonload of leather goods upstate to a point in Buffalo, New York. From there they would enter Canada. The book is dedicated to Frederick Douglass, "An Exemplar of the Capabilities of his Race, as an Acknowledgement of His Great Service in Behalf of an Afflicted and Despised people and as a Sincere Friend of the Martyred President . . ."