Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 57

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, ET AL. Group of four American Anti-Slavery Almanacs for 1836, 1839, 1841 and 1847. Woodcuts. 12mo, original printed and pictorial wrappers, some stains, and wear; small chip to the lower right corner of the 1847 front wrapper. should be seen. Boston, New York, and Cincinnati, 1836-1847
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

The American Anti-Slavery Almanacs ran from 1836 through 1847. Beyond their almanac function as a guide to farmers for planting, they included essays promoting abolition. In their pages one might find excerpts from noted slave narratives, accounts of slave auctions, whippings and abuses, escapes, and so forth. The 1841 issue carries silhouette engravings of Cinque and Grabeau, two of the leaders of the Amistad captives, and an account of their plight. The 1847 issue features a three-page letter from Frederick Douglass, as well as three poems by George Moses Horton, the "slave bard" from North Carolina.