Feb 25, 2010 - Sale 2204

Sale 2204 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--SLAVE NARRATIVES.) BALL, CHARLES. Slavery in the United States: a Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Charles Ball, a Black Man. 400 pages. Small, thick 8vo. Contemporary full sheep, lightly rubbed, the boards slightly bowed; front joint cracked but firm. Lewistown, PA, 1836

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the uncommon first edition of a narrative reprinted many times well into the 1850s. The narrative covers about forty years of Ball's life under several masters and his escapes therefrom.