UNCOMMON CALIFORNIA PRINTING JOHNSTON, REV. N.R. Looking Back from the Sunset Land, or People Worth Knowing. 624 pages. Frontispiece and 18 additional portraits including one of Underground Railroad conductor William Still. Thick 8vo, original maroon cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt. Oakland, CA [for the author], 1898
first edition. Johnston was active in the anti-slavery movement and later worked with the so-called "contrabands," and freedmen. Ever the crusader for good causes, there are some later chapters on the plight of the Chinese in California.
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