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Lot 130
[FLORIDA-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. Publisher's blindstamped black cloth, pictorially printed onlay to front board.. 7 3/8 x 4 5/8 inches (18.75 x 11.75 cm); [i]-vi, [7]-126 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, and 3 full-page wood-engraved illustrations in text. Staining and wear to boards, corners bumped, spine ends chipped, a few tears to cloth along rear joint and edges, loss to paper onlay on front board, frontispiece spotted and offsetting on title, contents generally quite clean with the occasional lightly toned leaf and pale spot, lock of hair laid in.
A anti-slavery 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 for 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. The binding, which retains much of it's printed paper onlay bearing an illustration of Walker's branded hand, is a rare survival that is much less commonly found than the gilt lettered publisher's cloth binding.
C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation
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