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DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. Portrait frontispiece, 125 pages. Small 8vo, original brown cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; binding slightly skewed, some foxing and toning throughout; contemporary owner's signature of Ezekiel Thatcher on the front free end-paper. Boston: Anti-Slavery Office, 1845
A better than average copy with a fine association, having belonged to Barnstable ship owner Ezekiel Thatcher. Thatcher is mentioned in Frank W. Sprague's "Barnstable and Yarmouth Sea Captains and Ship Owners" as an ardent abolitionist, one of several captains who would land runaway slaves on the south shore of Cape Cod.
