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Wheatley, Phillis (1753-1784) Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans.
Boston: Published by Geo. W. Light, 1834.
12mo, signed presentation copy from American abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) to Lydia White, with inscription and signature in pencil dated Boston, 1851 on front fly leaf; with the portrait of Wheatley by Scipio Morehead bound after the title page in this copy; bound in contemporary publisher's glazed cloth with original printed label on front board (worn, spine fragmentary, spotting to contents); 7 x 4½ in.
Lydia White was the first treasurer of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and a Quaker. She owned a "free labor" or "free produce" dry goods store in Philadelphia. Free, in the sense that all products she sold were certified as not produced or grown by farms, families, or factories that used slave labor.
