A very nicely preserved second compilation of essays and poems issued by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society embellished with 12 fine portrait plates, including the important black abolitionists William Wells Brown and Frederick Douglass. Many of the pieces are further illustrated with facsimile signatures.
Last sold at Swann for $1,375.00, and that a slightly inferior copy.
Includes "Visit of a Fugitive Slave to the Grave of Wilberforce" by William Wells Brown; "The Intellectual, Moral, and Spiritual Condition of the Slave" by John Mercer Langston; "A Time of Justice Will Come" by Gerrit Smith; two pieces by Charles Lewis Reason; "On Freedom" by Ralph Waldo Emerson; an extract from a speech by Frederick Douglass; "A Day Spent at Playford Hall" by Harriet Beecher Stowe; and much more. See: Afro-Americana 4369; Blockson 9205
[SLAVERY & ABOLITION] Griffiths, Julia [ed.] Autographs for Freedom. Auburn, NY. Alden, Beardsley & Co. 1854. 309pp.
In attractive publisher's gilt cloth pictorial, some light soiling and rubbing, just through at corners; very minor foxing, a few smudges. Two gatherings a bit forward in the block and slightly shaken. Early inscription of R. E. Johnson [1854] on the ffep.
