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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--POETRY.) The North Star, the Poetry of Freedom, By Her Friends. 117, [1] pages. Small 12mo, original deep brown roan with the title in gilt on the upper cover within a single gilt line border. Presentation on the verso of the front free end-paper: "Eliza M Pearl to Mary Pearl, 1840." Philadelphia: Merrihew and Thompson, 1840
first edition of an uncommon collection of abolitionist verse. The first piece "To the Morning Star" was written by John Quincy Adams, who would come out of retirement a year after this volume to defend the Amistad Captives.
