"The Slave-Wife" in Liberty Chimes
Providence, RI: Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 1845.
First edition. [5]-148 pp. Bound in publisher's cream-colored ribbed cloth, original yellow endpapers. A Good copy with staining to cloth, cloth chipped at head and tail, bumped corners, foxing to cloth and edges, hinges starting, top edge of front free endpaper torn off, contemporary bookseller's label to paste down. Rare in commerce.
A collection of abolitionist essays, stories, and poems. Perhaps most significant is the long story "The Slave-Wife" by Frances Harriet Green née Whipple (Eleanor Eldredge's ghostwriter), which was a predecessor to Uncle Tom's Cabin by seven years. Includes a letter from John Brown, an essay on "Reform" by Wendell Phillips and another by Christian anarchist Adin Ballou, the poem "The Contrast" by James Russell Lowell, the poems "Lines Written in November" and "The Golden Ball" by Sarah Helen Whitman (Edgar Allan Poe's fiancé); a long letter on slavery in Texas by Ahmed el Korah; and more.
Price: $8,500.00