IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE: A Study of the Boston Negroes

by John Daniels

$600 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914. First printing of this account of the history and lives of Black Bostonians, compiled over nine years by a social reformer. Near fine. Item #48737 IN FREEDOM'S BIRTHPLACE is a valuable snapshot of Black life in Boston when the traumas of slavery and the Civil War were still in living memory. The first third of the book offers a history of Black people in America, with a

• Printing: first

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