(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION RECONSTRUCTION) The United States Pr

Sale 2239 - Lot 105

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RARE FREEDMAN'S PRIMER (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--RECONSTRUCTION.) The United States Primer. with a small certificate (3-1/2 x 2-1/4) "Reward of merit" for "Lizzie M. Davis," presented by May A. Tuttle, loosely laid in. Profusion of woodcut vignette illustrations. 84 pages. Small 8vo, original pictorial paper-covered cloth-backed boards; some abrasion to the covers; still quite legible; pages lightly and evenly toned with some occasional light foxing. New York: American Tract Society, (1864)

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first edition. According to James Marten in "The Children's Civil War" (University of North Carolina Press, 1998) "Tens of thousands of freed people crowd[ed] into schools throughout the South. Many black students--adults as well as children-learned from traditional Northern textbooks, such as McGuffey's, but at least some had access to publications written expressly for freedmen and freedwomen. The American Tract Society brought out the most complete set of instructional materials including a pamphlet called First Lessons; The United States Primer. . .The Ten Commandments. . .and several sets of cards, printed on heavy paper. The Society reported that in 1864, 300 sets of these cards were in use and that 20,000 copies of first lessons and 24,000 copies of The United States Primer had been sent to Freedmen's schools." OCLC locates only 6 copies.