(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVE.) LEWIS, ELDER JOHN W. The Life, Labors and Travels of Elder Charles Bowles, of the Free Will Baptist Denomination . . . An Essay on the Fugitive Law, by Rev. Arthur Dearing. 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth; tips lightly bumped; lacks the first of two front blank end-papers; some light foxing. Watertown: Ingalls' Steam Press, 1852
first edition. Bowles was born in Boston in 1751. "His father was an African, in the humble capacity of a servant . . . His mother was a daughter of the celebrated Col. Morgan, who was distinguished as an Officer in the Rifle Corps of the American army, during the Revolutionary struggle for independence." Blockson, 9665.
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