(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION SLAVE NARRATIVES) Experience and Per

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--SLAVE NARRATIVES.) Experience and Personal Narrative of Uncle Tom Jones, who was for Forty Years a Slave; also the Surprising Adventures of Wild Tom, of the Island Retreat, a Fugitive Negro from South Carolina. Engraved frontispiece; 54 pages. 8vo, original engraved blue wrappers with the portrait of Jones on the upper cover and advertisements for the publisher on the rear cover; wrappers detached with some edge-wear; stain running through the frontispiece and title-page. Boston, [1855]

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first edition of a scarce sensational printing of two different pieces. The first 28 pages are a straightforward and authentic narrative; the second is entirely fictional and extracted from Richard Hildreth's "The Slave, or Archie Moore," published in Boston, in 1836. It is interesting that the present publisher chose to use a portion of "Archie Moore," which was first published anonymously and for many years was thought to be an authentic narrative. Not in Afro-Americana; Blockson, 9405; Sabin, 36611 mistakenly cites this as a variant printing of "The Experience of Thomas Jones who was a Slave for Forty Years (Boston, 1850).