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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) The National Freedman, a Monthly Journal of the New York National Freedman's Relief Association. Group of 10 issues, including Volume 1, Number 11 which contains a printing of the 13th Amendment ("Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude . . . shall exist within the United States"). 8vo, self-wrappers. New York, 1865-66
Only one other copy of Volume 1, Number 11 has come to auction. That copy was sold by Swann Galleries in 2011 for $1100. The 13th Amendement is printed on the front page of this issue, but it contains additional articles relating to the amendment's passge. The most notable is Laura Haviland's account of Sojourner Truth being injured while being forcibly removed from a Washington, D.C. street-car. The legal case which resulted from the incident was won by the plaintiff and Washington street-cars were subsequently desegregated. This lot contains the following additional issues of the periodical: Volume 1: Numbers 2, 4-10, and Volume 2, Number 3.
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