New York, Printed. York, Reprinted: W. Alexander, 1818.
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Hardcover. First English edition. Small octavo. 30pp. Disbound from a volume of pamphlets. Self-wrappers. A chip at the bottom corner of the front wrap, and splitting along the spine, else a very good copy. Memorial to Cuffee, the famous sea captain of mixed African and Wampanoag Indian descent. He was an entrepreneur who was the first to deliver free African-Americans back to Africa and helped colonize Sierra Leone.
The memorial was authored by African-American clergyman and abolitionist Peter Williams, Jr. who had supported Cuffee's efforts but later became disillusioned with the Colonization Movement, and instead became an ardent abolitionist and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society. Exceptionally uncommon. *Catalogue of the Blockson Collection* 2714.
Item #414498
