New York: Published by the A. & F. Anti-Slavery Society, William Harned, Office Agent, 1850.
Price: $600.00
Softcover. First edition. 12mo. 156pp. Sewn printed self-wrappers. First and last leaves a bit toned, with light scattered foxing to few pages of text, else a very good or better copy. Report on the Tenth Annual Meeting of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society held in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on Tuesday, May 7th, 1850. Prints accounts, including the text of several letters by runaway, imprisoned, and freed slaves, including a plea by Emily Russell, an imprisoned slave, to her mother, a freed slave ("Mrs. Nancy Cartright"), with a response from "Bruin & Hill," the "notorious slave-traders," setting a price of $1800 to purchase Emily's freedom, and $2,500 for Aunt Hagar and her seven children, and "$2,800 for Sally and her four children". Also prints text by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, Daniel Webster, Lewis Tappan, and others and the text of the "Free Soil Platform," the "Liberty Creed," news of slavery and the abolitionist movement from Great Britain, the West Indies and the United States, etc. Uncommon. *OCLC* locates seven holdings.
Item #519357
