Item #140944389 The Man: The Hero: The Christian! A Eulogy of the Life and Character of Thomas Clarkson: Delivered in the City of New-York; December, 1846. by Rev. Alexander Crummell, Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah; Together with Freedom: A Poem, Read on the Same Occasion by Mr. Charles L. Reason. Alexander Crummell, Charles L. Reason.
The Man: The Hero: The Christian! A Eulogy of the Life and Character of Thomas Clarkson: Delivered in the City of New-York; December, 1846. by Rev. Alexander Crummell, Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah; Together with Freedom: A Poem, Read on the Same Occasion by Mr. Charles L. Reason

The Man: The Hero: The Christian! A Eulogy of the Life and Character of Thomas Clarkson: Delivered in the City of New-York; December, 1846. by Rev. Alexander Crummell, Rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Messiah; Together with Freedom: A Poem, Read on the Same Occasion by Mr. Charles L. Reason

New York: Egbert, Hovey & King, Printers, 1847.

First edition. 44 pp. Bound in publisher's blue wraps over string binding. Rear wrap gone. Ink notation to front wrap, corners bumped and creased, light foxing to contents. Rare in commerce.

The African American minister Alexander Crummell's first work, printed with Charles Reason's abolitionist poem "Freedom." Crummell's eulogy of English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson is a detailed biography of the man and his successful efforts to put an end to the slave trade.

In his biography of Crummell Jeremiah Wilson describes this work as "not the typical black abolitionist address. There were no striking firsthand accounts of life on the plantation, no harrowing descriptions of lashings [...] The eulogium was a philosophical piece. It contained a theory of history and civilization dominated by the idea of progress. It revealed a belief in the power of ideas and a concept of Christian modernism." Item #140944389

Price: $4,500.00