Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

187 187 c   (DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Frederick Douglass’ Paper, Volume VIII, #16. 4 pages, 26 1 / 4 x 19 inches; faint dampstaining, light wear at folds, an inch of vermin damage in fore-edge margin; name of subscriber W. Parsons in pencil in upper margin. Rochester, NY, 6 April 1855 [1,500/2,500] This issue includes a long letter from the fugitive slave and abolitionist Jermain Wesley Loguen: “The time has come for us to stop running! . . . The Underground Railroad was never doing a better business than at present. We have had as many as sixteen passengers in one week in this city—I speak officially, as the agent and keeper of an Underground Railroad Depot.” He appends the constitution of his Fugitive Aid League. Also included are a long report on a speech by Douglass in Philadelphia, a review of how slavery had been abolished in the British colonies, updates on Kansas settlement, and much more. 188    DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. My Bondage and My Freedom. 3 plates. 464 pages plus 2 ad leaves. 8vo, publisher’s cloth, worn at extremities; moderate foxing, dampstaining to plates, inscription clipped from front free endpaper. NewYork, 1855 [300/400] first edition of the second of four Douglass autobiographies, preceded by the 1845 Narrative. Blockson 9717. 189 c   DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. What the Black Man Wants, in The Equality of All Men Before the Law Claimed and Defended. [3]-43, [1] pages. 8vo, stitched; moderate foxing to title page, lacking wrappers, minimal wear. Boston, 1865 [500/750] The important speech by Douglass, given before the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, is here published in pamphlet form (pages 36-39) with other speeches byWilliam D. Kelley andWendell Phillips.Afro-Amer- icana 3502; Blockson 2779. with —8 other Civil War-era pamphlets touching on slavery and abolition: Seward.The Great Speech . . . Against the Lecompton Constitution. Np, 1858 * Goodloe.The Southern Platform; or Manual of Southern Sentiment on the Subject of Slavery. Boston, 1858 * Church Anti-Slavery Society: Proceedings of the Convention which met atWorcester,Mass. NewYork, 1859 * Southern Hatred of the American Government, the People of the North, and Free Institutions. Boston, 1862 * Moore. Historical Notes on the Employment of Negroes in the American Army of the Revolution. NewYork, 1862 * Facts Concerning the Freedmen, their Capacity and their Destiny . . . by the Emancipation League. Boston, 1863 * Drisler. BibleView of Slavery . . . Examined. NewYork, 1863 * Stone. Emancipation. Cincinnati, OH: American ReformTract and Book Society, 1862. Most 8vo with original wrappers.