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LUNDY, BENJAMIN.
The Genius of
Universal Emancipation.
12 numbers,
with general title-page and index. Tall,
narrow 4to, 192 consecutively numbered
pages; original tree-calf; spine rubbed;
gold star on front paste-down beneath the
PRESENTATION FROM EDITOR
/
PUBLISHER
BENJAMIN LUNDY
.
Washington, 1833
[1,500/2,500]
PRESENTED BY BENJAMIN LUNDY TO L
.
A
SPALDING IN PHILADELPHIA JUNE
12, 1838.
Benjamin Lundy (1789-1839) New Jersey
Quaker businessman, publisher, and author,
once co-edited this paper with William Lloyd
Garrison, though at the time Garrison and
Lundy disagreed on the issue of immediate
emancipation. Lundy traveled extensively, fight-
ing the expansion of slavery in the United
States. Lundy traveled “more than 5000 miles
on foot and 20,000 in other ways, visited 19
states of the Union, and held more than 200
public meetings.” He was bitterly denounced by
slaveholders and also by some non-slaveholders
that disapproved of all anti-slavery agitation. In
1827 Lundy was severely beaten by Austin
Woolfolk a slave-trader whom Lundy had pub-
lically embarrassed in an article in his paper.
ONE NUMBER CARRIES A POEM SAID TO
HAVE BEEN WRITTEN BY A SLAVE FROM
VIRGINIA
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VIRGINIA.
“Lettie Hollis, now Lettie
Williams, a colored woman about 25
years of age . . .”
Manuscript deed of
freedom by Mary Scott, attesting to Lettie
Hollis-Williams’ status as a free born
woman.
Fairfax County, VA, 1831
[800/1,200]
AN UNUSUAL DEED OF FREEDOM
,
incorpo-
rating the testimony of Mary Scott, a white
woman, sworn before Edmund Brooke, justice
of the peace, and then taken to William Brent,
County Clerk, proving that Lettie Hollis, now
Lettie Williams, was the daughter of Peggy
Hollis, a free black woman. Signed by the
proper authorities and bearing the circular
blind-stamps of the Clerk of Washington
County.
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