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(NARRATIVES.) HEN-
SON, JOSIAH.
Wi rkl ische
Lebensgeschichte des Unkels
Tom in Frau Beecher-Stowe’s
“Onkel Tom’s Hutte”
[The
Real Life Story of Uncle Tom
from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s
Uncle Tom’s Cabin]. Frontispiece
portrait of Henson. 208 pages,
small 8vo, original gilt and blind-
stamped decorative cloth.
Cincinnati: Verlag
von Hitchcock and Walden,
1878
[500/750]
RARE
,
AUTHORIZED GERMAN
LANGUAGE EDITION
.
OCLC LOCATES ONLY
2
COPIES
:
NYPL AND THE GERMAN SOCIETY OF
PENNSYLVANIA
.
Henson (1789-1883) was born into slavery in Charles County, Maryland. He
escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer’s school for
other fugitive slaves at Dawn, near Dresden in Kent County. His narrative first appeared in 1849,
“The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, now a Resident of Canada. .“ Another edition,
“Truth Stranger Than Fiction” came out in 1853, on the heels of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s hit novel,
and was reprised in 1876. It was from the latter edition that this translation was made.
156
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(NARRATIVES.) [ JACOBS, HARRIET].
Incidents in the Life of a Slave
Girl; Written by Herself.
306 pages. 8vo, recent black morocco-backed marbled paper-
covered boards; spine gilt with five raised bands, title and author with in two
compartments.
Boston: For the Author, 1861
[2,500/3,500]
THE FIRST EDITION OF THE MOST WIDELY READ WOMAN
’
S SLAVE NARRATIVE
.
For many years
this book was thought to be just another fictional slave narrative written by Lydia Maria Child, one
of the most widely read women authors of the 19th century. However, through years of exhaustive
research by Professor Jean Fagan Yellin (“Harriet Jacobs, a Life,” Basic Civitas, 2004), Harriet Jacobs
has emerged as a very real person, born in Chowan County, North Carolina in 1813. After an
extraordinary life, Harriet Jacobs died in Washington D.C. in 1897. Afro Americana, 5191.
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(NARRATIVES.) LOVEJOY, J.C. [CLARKE, LEWIS AND MILTON].
Narratives of the Sufferings of Lewis and Milton Clarke, Sons of a Soldier of the
Revolution, during a Captivity of more than Twenty Years among the
Slaveholders of Kentucky. Dictated by Themselves.
Portrait frontispiece. 144 pages.
8vo, original blind and gilt-stamped cloth; occasional foxing throughout.
Boston: Bela Marsh, 1846
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION
,
INSCRIBED TO AMASA WALKER BY J
.
C
.
LOVEJOY
, “
THE AUTHOR
.”
One of the
more popular narratives of the day, Lewis and Milton Clarke’s narrative is a familiar one. The sons of
a white man, their mother was his slave. Amasa Walker, the man to whom this book was inscribed,
was a noted Connecticut lawyer and abolitionist.