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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) ROSS, DR. ALEXANDER MILTON. Recollections and Experiences of an Abolitionist, from 1835 to 1865. Engraved frontispiece of a slave in a jail cell. 203 pages; inserted portrait of the author; on the reverse of which he has inscribed and dated the inscription, 1886; someone has made a note dated 1918 on the rear endpaper that appears to be some sort of cataloguing. Toronto: Rowsell and Hutchinson, 1876
second edition of a scarce memoir, written by a canadian abolitionist. Inscribed and signed by Ross: 'Presented to William Gebb Esq. with sentiments of high respect, by the Author, Jany., 1st, 1886.' Ross was very active in the Underground Railroad; not only from the Canadian side, but working in the South in Alabama, Kentucky, and Louisiana, and specifically in New Orleans. He was imprisoned for his efforts and the material at the front of the book prints appreciations from a virtual who's who, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, William Lloyd Garrison, Gerrit Smith and many others.
