(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) TORREY JESSE A Portraiture of Domest

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A BEAUTIFUL COPY, SIGNED BY MOSES BROWN (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) TORREY, JESSE. A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery in the United States. Frontispiece and 5 engraved plates with their original paper guards. Tall 8vo, original printed paper-covered boards, expertly re-backed in the style of the original spine. Fine, untrimmed copy, with the ownership signature of abolitionist moses brown. Balston spa, 1818

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first edition of a scarce and important anti-slavery work, bearing the ownership signature of abolitionist Moses Brown. Brown (1738-1836) came from a well-to-do New England family of merchants whose various businesses included the West India trade. In 1773, after the passing of his first wife and marriage to his second wife, who was a Quaker, Brown adopted her faith, freed his own slaves, and became an ardent abolitionist.