Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter

by Louis Hughes

$7,000 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897. 8vo 8.5” x 6.25” , burgundy cloth stamped in silver. Frontis., 210 pp., 7 b&w plates of antebellum and Confederate currency. Early ownership inscription in ink at verso of frontis: “No. 26 Charles Townsend.” CONDITION: Very good, corners bumped, light scratch to upper right corner of front cover, occasional light wear to extremities; a tight, attractive copy.

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