Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 123

Price Realized: $ 510
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--NARRATIVES.) WILLIAMS, JAMES. Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, who was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama. Portrait frontispiece. 108 pages. 12mo, early cloth-backed boards; de-accession stamp and traces of another stamp along the margin of the title-page; paper label on the spine; paper evenly toned. New York: American Anti-Slavery Society-- Boston: Knapp, 1838

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first edition. In a lengthy, twenty-three page "Preface," the publisher lays out the plain facts of slavery, citing many instances of the terrible cruelty of human bondage. An appendix at the rear quotes numerous "witnesses" to the horrors of the slave trade. Afro-Americana, 11241.