Memoir and Poems of Phillis Wheatley, a Native African and a Slave. Dedicated to the Friends of the Africans

by Phillis Wheatley, Margaret Matilda Odell

$25,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

Boston: Geo. W. Light, 1834. First edition. Presentation copy from famous American anarchist William Lloyd Garrison to Lydia White in Boston, 1851, with inscription and signature in pencil on front fly leaf. White was a Quaker and, like Garrison, an ardent abolitionist, the first treasurer of the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Her free labor or free produce dry goods store in Philadelphia refused to stock

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