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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) CHILD, LYDIA MARIA.
“To Deprive a
laborer of his wages. . . .”
Sentiment Signed, with a contemporary photograph of
Child. Small piece of note-paper and 3
1
/
4
x 2 inch albumen photograph mounted to a
piece of paper.
Np, circa 1850’s
[600/900]
“To deprive a laborer of his wages, and then hire an overseer to whip him to do his work, is as foolish
economy as it would be to take the spring from a watch and then hire a boy to turn the hands around.
L. Maria Child.”
PRESENTED TO OSSIE DAVIS
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) (DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.)
Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.
Portrait
frontispiece. 122, [cxxxiii]-cxxxv pages. Small 8vo, modern wine-colored polished calf;
reinforcement to the gutter between the title-page and the frontispiece.
TO OSSIE DAVIS
FROM FREEDOMWAYS
1961
in gilt on the front cover.
Dublin, 1846
[1,000/1,500]
THE SECOND DUBLIN EDITION
;
1858 inscription on verso of frontispiece. Davis and his wife Ruby
Dee were active Civil Rights advocates.
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