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THE FIRST AMERICAN ANTI-SLAVERY ILLUSTRATION BRANAGAN, THOMAS. A Preliminary Essay on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa . . . Wood engraved frontispiece. 12mo, contemporary full calf with small morocco spine label; lightly rubbed; rear board very slightly started; early ownership signatures on front free and-paper. Philadelphia: For the author, 1804
first edition. Branagan, an ex-slaver turned abolitionist, wrote several works on the immorality of slavery. The woodcut frontispiece is the first anti-slavery illustration in an American book. Hamilton, 1898; Shaw and Shoemaker, 5901; Sabin, 7379.
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