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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NARRATIVES.) BRUNER, PETER.
A
Slave’s Adventures Toward Freedom.
Illustrated from photographs. 54 pages. 8vo,
original dark blue cloth with title on the upper cover.
Oxford, Ohio: For the Author, 1918
[700/1,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
A late narrative, but more important, a genuine one. All too often narratives
were tainted by the missionary zeal of those who took them down from the slave’s lips. Bruner
was for many years the janitor of Miami, Ohio University. Born in Clark County, Kentucky
in 1845, Bruner bore the name of his owner, John Bell Bruner who was in all likelihood his
father as well.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—WOMEN.) COOPER, ANNA JULIA.
A
voice from the South by a Black Women of the South.
Portrait frontispiece with
tissue guard. 304 pages. 8vo, original two-toned red and tan cloth with title in gilt on the
upper cover and spine; a very handsome copy.
LOOSELY LAID IN
,
IS A PENCIL NOTE IN
COOPER
’
S HAND
,
PRESENTING THE BOOK TO AN OFFICER OF THE
29
TH OHIO VOLUNTEERS
.
ADDITIONALLY INSCRIBED ON THE TITLE
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PAGE
.
Np, 1892
[6,000/8,000]
FIRST EDITION
,
PRESENTATION COPY OF A RARE BOOK
,
WITH A FINE ASSOCIATION
.
Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964), author, feminist, educator and activist was born into slavery
and yet lived long enough to see the Civil Rights Act come into existence in 1964. Cooper
said of her book that she felt the need to give the black woman of the South a voice. “In the
clash and clatter of our American Conflict, it has been said that the South remains Silent. Like
the Sphinx she inspires vociferous disputation. . [but] One muffled strain in the Silent South, a
jarring chord and a vague and uncomprehended (sic) cadenza has been and still is the Negro.
And of that muffled chord, the one mute and voiceless note has been the sadly expectant Black
Woman.” Cooper, only the fourth African American women to receive a PhD (Sorbonne,
1925), spent most of her life teaching and advocating for women, their education and their
place in society. The note presenting this book reads: “To Captain Wilbur F. Chamberlain,
compliments of Anna J. Cooper, instructor of languages at Lincoln Institute.” She adds on the
title-page “Compliments of the Author.”
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