Feb 27, 2003 - Sale 1961

Sale 1961 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 402
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
(SLAVERY and ABOLITION.) (SLAVE NARRATIVE.) Jones, Thomas H. The Experience of Thomas H. Jones who was a Slave for Forty-three Years. Frontispiece. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, with a portrait of Jones on the front cover. Nice copy. New Bedford: E. Anthony and Sons, 1868

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A later printing of this narrative which first appeared in 1854. Jones toured the country lecturing on his enslavement and escape. Work, page 312, with a curious note, "The second part was written by Archie Moore."