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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) LEE, MRS. HANNAH F. S. Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, born a Slave in St. Domingo. Portrait frontispiece; small 8vo, original blue cloth, stamped in blind, title in gilt on the spine. New York, 1854
the second edition, inscribed by quaker abolitionist thomas wistar (1798-1876) to his brother. Pierre Toussaint, a hair dresser who gained fame as a philanthropist was recommended for sainthood by the late Cardinal O'Connor of New York, who had Toussaint's remains removed from the small cemetery in Lower Manhattan's to St. Patrick's Cathedral. A nice association copy.
