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[WALKER, JONATHAN] Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves to Escape from Bondage. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of his Life.

Catalogue: The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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Lot 261
[WALKER, JONATHAN] Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for Aiding Slaves to Escape from Bondage. With an Appendix, Containing a Sketch of his Life.
Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1846. Modern speckled calf spine with marbled paper boards, gilt black leather spine label, all edges sprinkled brown. 7 x 4 3/8 inches (17.75 x 11.25 cm); [i]-vi, [7]-126 pp., portrait frontispiece, plates. Contents spotted throughout, especially at front and back.

A memoir by Jonathan Walker, "the Man with the Branded Hand", who was imprisoned by the U.S. Government and branded "S.S.", for slave stealer, after being captured during an attempt to help seven runaway slaves flee Florida to the British West Indies. The preface is by Maria Weston Chapman, a noted Boston abolitionist and the editor of the anti-slavery journal The Non-Resistant.


C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Estimate: $100 - $200

Sold for $126 (includes buyer's premium)

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Estimate: $100 - $200

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The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 10am EDT

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