Boston: Dexter S. King, 1842-1843; 1838.
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Hardcover. Elephant folio. Measuring 18.5" x 24.75". Contemporary quarter calf, marbled boards, with clear tape on the spine and corners, very good with scattered spotting and small owner's signatures. A run of issues of the anti-slavery newspaper created by the merging of the Massachusetts Abolition Society’s *Free American* and the New York-based *Emancipator*. This combined newspaper was first published simultaneously in New York City and Boston, from December, 1841 - March 1842, and thereafter in Boston only. Each weekly issue consisted of four large pages of letterpress. This volume contains 46 issues bound in one volume: Volume 6, no. 41 (April 7, 1842) to Volume 8, no. 4 (May 25, 1843); lacks 13 issues and with four additional titles bound in at the rear: *National Anti-Slavery Standard* (June 9, 1842); *The Liberator* (two issues: September 14, 1838 and October 19, 1838); *Herald of Freedom* (one issue: December 30, 1842); and *Christian Investigator* (Issue One: June 1, 1842). Small owner's signature "F. Bailey" in neat ink on most numbers at the top edge. In reference to the first missing issue (no. 14), a manuscript note (presumably by Bailey) on the preceding number 13 reads in part, "must have been miscarried." A scarce collection of this abolitionist newspaper that supported a political solution to slavery and provides insight into the various divisions within the movement and related reform groups operating at the time.
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