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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) REASON, PATRICK. Engraving of a Kneeling slave woman "Engraved by P. Reason, a Colored Young Man of the City of New York, 1835. Woodcut vignette, 2x2 inches, at the head of a letter from an apparent abolitionist to a friend; creases where folded; a thin piece of paper adhered to the top of the text of the letter, not affecting the engraving. Hartford, March 21st, 1839
An uncommon appearance of Patrick Reason''s famous rendering of the kneeling slave woman, which first appeared as the frontispiece to "The Fountain for Every Day in the Year in1836." Reason, born Patrice Rison (1816-1898), was born to Guadeloupan parents in New York City. His first engraving appeared in Andrews, "History of the New York African Free Schools" when he was only thirteen, and still an apprentice.
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