Title: The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book, Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children, and Stories of Slave Life Author: Julia Colman and Matilda Thompson Place: New York Publisher: Date: 1859 Description: 10 engraved illustrations, accompanying five stories. Original cloth in unusually good condition. 4 x 6”, 158+2pp.of ads for Sunday School books. Apparent First Edition; (other imprints, as noted in WorldCat, contain only 8 plates.) Rare. Another copy, with worn binding, brought $2000 at auction in New York earlier this year. Of 18 imprints excerpted in DeRosa’s 2005 “Anthology of Children’s Abolitionist Literature”, this book, published on the eve of the Civil War, is lauded for its “unparalleled level of complexity in the portrayal of the slave family unit, its rupture, and the stalwart efforts that slave parents make to protect their child’s best interests…” The stories describe “the conditions of servitude…its violation of family bonds; the events that lead to a child’s awakening of his or her status as a slave; the emotional crisis and ramifications of this awakening; and the process by which the child attains freedom…” The illustrations include a Slave father sold away from his family, the sale of a slave child, hunting runaway slaves with dogs, and a fugitive captured. Lot Amendments Condition: Some internal foxing and soiling; very good. Item number: 286001
Title: The Child’s Anti-Slavery Book, Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children, and Stories of Slave Life Author: Julia Colman and Matilda Thompson Place: New York Publisher: Date: 1859 Description: 10 engraved illustrations, accompanying five stories. Original cloth in unusually good condition. 4 x 6”, 158+2pp.of ads for Sunday School books. Apparent First Edition; (other imprints, as noted in WorldCat, contain only 8 plates.) Rare. Another copy, with worn binding, brought $2000 at auction in New York earlier this year. Of 18 imprints excerpted in DeRosa’s 2005 “Anthology of Children’s Abolitionist Literature”, this book, published on the eve of the Civil War, is lauded for its “unparalleled level of complexity in the portrayal of the slave family unit, its rupture, and the stalwart efforts that slave parents make to protect their child’s best interests…” The stories describe “the conditions of servitude…its violation of family bonds; the events that lead to a child’s awakening of his or her status as a slave; the emotional crisis and ramifications of this awakening; and the process by which the child attains freedom…” The illustrations include a Slave father sold away from his family, the sale of a slave child, hunting runaway slaves with dogs, and a fugitive captured. Lot Amendments Condition: Some internal foxing and soiling; very good. Item number: 286001
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