Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) QUAKERS. A Statistical Inquiry into the Condition of the People of Colour of the city and Districts of Philadelphia. 44 pages. 8vo, modern marbled paper-covered boards with morocco label up the spine, original pink wrappers bound in. Philadelphia: Kite and Walton, 1849

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first edition of the second of three early studies of the free black population of Philadelphia. The present work was done by the Quakers. A third study appeared in 1859, titled "Ten Years' Progress; or a Comparison of the State and Condition of the Colored People in the City and Districts of Philadelphia from 1837 to 1847. Negro History, 1553-1903, #158; not in Blockson, Sabin 62289; Afro-Americana, 9764.