Narrative of SOJOURNER TRUTH ~ First Edition 1850 ~ 1st Original Cloth ~ Slavery

Description: Narrative of Sojourner Truth, A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York in 1828. by Sojourner Truth First edition, first printing of the classic ex-slave narrative Boston: Printed for the Author [by J.B. Yerriton and Son], 1850. First edition, first printing. 144 pp. with author portrait. Bound in publisher's brown cloth stamped in blind with gilt title to front board, skillfully recased and stabilized. About Very Good with fading, staining, and soiling to cloth; worn extremities and "1856" written on the front pastedown. Provenance: early owner Joseph I. Mabbett (1833-1917) of Collins, Erie County, NY, son of Underground Railroad conductors Anna Griffin Mabbett and Lorenzo Mabbett; his name written on second blank with loss and corner crease; rear free endpaper renewed. Contents toned with foxing, faint dampstaining and light soiling to margins. A major work of 19th-century Black literature, quite rare in the original cloth. Originally a Dutch-speaking slave in New York, the author escaped to freedom with her infant daughter in 1826. Two years later, she sued her former owner to recover her son and became the first black woman to sue a white man and prevail. After gaining freedom, she would preach about abolition and human rights for all. "A legend in her own time, Truth's indomitable will has won her a permanent place in American history. Her evangelic fervor and plain wit helped to advance the causes of emancipation and women's rights" (Blockson 29).

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