Description: 12 mo. (7 1/2 by 5 1/4 inches) xii, 212 pages, portrait frontispiece, with facsimile signature; hardcover, original decorative patterned cloth binding, embossed in blind; title in gilt on spine, old inked signature of previous owner neatly written on front flyleaf, very good condition (minor staining to margins of portrait, title page, and a few preliminary pages – not affecting contents, or overall very good condition of the book). " . . . the fugitive Josiah Henson . . . who was said to have been the original 'Uncle Tom' was born a slave in Maryland in 1789. He went to Kentucky . . . was denied the privilege of purchasing his freedom, and was sent to a slave market in New Orleans. He fled with his wife and four children and reached Canada by way of Cincinnati and Buffalo." He traveled three times to England, " . . . where he was greatly honored." – Dumond, Dwight Lowell. ANTI SLAVERY, The Crusade for Freedom in America. page 337
Price: 475 USD
Location: Los Angeles, California
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Binding: Original hardcover, decorative patterned cloth binding,
Place of Publication: Boston, and Cleveland
Narrative Type: First Hand Narrative
Publisher: John P. Jewett. and Henry P. B. Jewett
Subject: Anti-Slavery
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1858
Publication Year: 1858
Language: English
Special Attributes: Original
Author: Josiah Henson, With An Introduction By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Region: North America
Topic: American Slavery
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Character Family: Antebellum South
