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(SLAVE NARRATIVES.) BROWN, JOHN.

Slave Life in Georgia: a

Narrative of the Life, Sufferings and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave,

now in England.

Engraved portrait frontispiece. 250 pages, with inserted slip advertising

other abolitionist works at the end. Small 8vo, original patterned flexible green cloth, title

in gilt on the upper cover; binding slightly sloped.

London: 1855

[400/600]

SECOND EDITION

,

THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST

.

John Brown (1810-1876) was born into slavery

in Virginia. Originally given the single name “Fed,” Brown spent his earliest years on a tobacco farm

in North Carolina, until he was separated from his mother at the age of ten and sent to work on a farm

in Georgia. After at least one failed attempt, Fed escaped but was caught in New Orleans and sold

again to a Mississippi planter. From there he escaped yet again and made his way north to Michigan

and then to Canada, and finally to England, where he settled. “One of the few authentic slave narra-

tives”—Dictionary of American Slavery.

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(NARRATIVES.) [BROWN, JOHN, JR.]

Recollections and Experiences of

an Abolitionist; from 1855 to 1865, by Dr. Alexander Milton Ross.

Engraved fron-

tispiece, and portrait of the author.

PRESENTATION ON THE VERSO OF THE PORTRAIT

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Toronto: Rowsell and Hutchinson, 1876

[2,500/3,500]

SECOND EDITION

.

A LOVELY COPY OF A SCARCE BOOK WITH A FINE ASSOCIATION

:

”Presented

to John Brown Jr. with the Author’s affectionate regards, Toronto, April 2, 1878.” Ross (1832-1897)

was imprisoned numerous times for inciting and aiding slaves to escape, consulting on many occasions

with John Brown. This second edition contains additional material not in the first, including letters of

commendation from Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lydia Maria Child, Gerrit

Smith, and Wendell Phillips, among others.

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