Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 114

Price Realized: $ 1,320
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [LADD, ELIZABETH.] Some Account of Lucy Cardwell, a Woman of Colour, who departed this Life on the 25th of the 3rd month, 1824--aged 39 years. Single 8vo sheet, folded to form four pages, printed on all sides; an untrimmed copy; the paper evenly toned. Philadelphia, (1824)

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A scarce little biography of Lucy Cardwell, a free woman of color, born in Charles County Virginia. Written by a friend and neighbor. This sketch was later incorporated into Abigail Mott's "Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color" (New York, 1826); Work, page 312.