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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NARRATIVES.) PICKARD, MRS. KATE
E.R.,
The Kidnapped and the Ransomed, being the Personal Recollections of
Peter Still and His Wife “Vina”. . . With an Introduction by the Rev. Samuel
May.
Engraved frontispiece and half-title. 409 pages, 6 page publisher’s catalogue at rear.
Thick 8vo, original blind-stamped patterned plum colored cloth, lightly faded; front hinge
started but firm.
Syracuse, NY, 1856
[600/900]
FIRST EDITION OF AN IMPORTANT SLAVE NARRATIVE
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The story of the kidnapping of Vina Still
like that of Solomon Northup was all too common. Free blacks had to be very careful where they
walked because slavers were constantly kidnapping free blacks and taking them to the large slave mar-
kets in Washington and Richmond where they would disappear into slavery on some plantation
where their voice could not be heard. This particular narrative is well laid out with a précis of events
described for each chapter.
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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION—NARRATIVES.) HENSON, JOSIAH.
Truth
Stranger than Fiction. Father Henson’s Story of His Own Life.
Engraved portrait
frontispiece, 212 pages. 8vo, original blind-stamped cloth; the gilt on the spine bright and
readable; one signature partially sprung.
Boston: Jewett, 1858
[400/600]
FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE MAN ON WHOM HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
BASED HER CHARACTER OF UNCLE TOM
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