He lived for twelve years in bondage in the Red River region of Louisiana. A ex-slave memoir by an African American man who had been a free landowner in New York but during an 1841 trip to the nation's capitol was drugged, kidnapped and sold into slavery. A presentable copy of the sought-after first printing in its original binding with no discernible sophistications quite rare thus. Contents significantly foxed and printing quality of pages varies, as is typical. About Very Good with cloth worn along edges, exposed boards along bottom edge, rubbed spine lettering. Housed in a leather backed custom clamshell case. Illustrated with seven full page illustrations including the frontispiece of the author. Bound in publisher's brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, boards stamped in blind with original yellow coated endpapers. (First printing with no mention of additional printings in thousands at top of title page.), xvi, (17)-336pp.
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