Feb 28, 2002 - Sale 1926

Sale 1926 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
POLLARD, EDWARD. Black Diamonds Gathered in the Darkey Homes of the South. 12mo, publisher's cloth, backstrip faded, minor stain to the front cover. New York, 1860

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Second edition, printed in spite of loud condemnation of the first. The work is an unrepentant defense of the South, slavery and the slave trade, comprised of 8 letters plus a children's story titled "Black Aaron." It first appeared with the title "The Southern Spy or Curiosities of Slavery in the South." Sabin 63853.<