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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) BROWN, JOHN.
John Brown, Leader of the
Harpers’ Ferry Insurrection.
Hand-colored lithograph, 14 x 9
3
/
4
inches; paper toned
with some slight shadowing; some discoloration in the bottom margin, not affecting the
image.
New York: Currier and Ives, circa 1859-1860
[600/900]
A wonderful image of John Brown, quite formally dressed; seated in an armchair, holding a copy of the
New York Tribune in his right hand.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER.
Uncle
Tom’s Cabin.
A partial run of 18 issues of the National Era, printing Chapters 1 through
18 in 18 weekly numbers of Volume V for 1851. Elephant folio; original boards present
but detached; some foxing and discoloration to the text.
Washington, D.C., 1851
[600/900]
THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF STOWE
’
S LANDMARK ANTI
-
SLAVERY NOVEL
.
Stowe wrote Gamaliel
Bradley, the editor of the National Era, early in 1851, offering him a story that she said might run as
many as a three or four installments. But the response to the first several chapters was such that she
continued to provide material that finally came to 44 weekly installments from 5 June 1851 to 1
April 1852. The National Era had a subscribership of approximately 15,000 before Uncle Tom’s
appearance, and 19,000 when the last part appeared. A deal had already been struck with Jewett, the
Boston publisher, and the first copies of the book version of Uncle Tom began to appear on the 18th of
March of 1852. There are considerable textual differences in the final book form of the work.
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