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NICE ASSOCIATION (SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--SLAVE NARRATIVES.) PICKARD, MRS. KATE E. R. The Kidnapped and the Ransomed, Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina", after Forty Years of Slavery. Frontispiece and engraved half-title. 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth; binding slightly sloped with some fading and light rubbing to the spine. Syracuse, 1856
third edition, of a scarce narrative, with the ownership signature of poet and iconoclast james russell lowell on the front free end-paper. Lowell (1819-1891) wrote scores of articles and poems in defense of abolition and other reform causes. He became a chief editorial writer for the Pennsylvania Freeman and the National Anti-Slavery Standard during the mid-1840s. The story of Peter Still and his wife is one of the most stirring and authentic narratives of the 19th century. It bears an Introduction by abolitionist leader Samuel May. Afro Americana, 8187.
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