A Freeman and Yet a Slave

by COSTON, W(illiam). H(ilary)

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Book Description

Burlington (Iowa): Wohlwend Bros. Printers. (1888). First. First edition. Original blue cloth gilt. 84pp., frontispiece portrait wood engraving. Extremities a little bumped and rubbed, the paper over the hinges a little cracked, but the hinges tight, a very good or better copy. A polemic by an African-American from Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, about the racist policies in the South after Reconstruction, and advocating hard work and perseverance as the antidote. A very uncommon title. Not in the Catalogue of the Blockson Collection. OCLC locates eight copies of the first edition. .

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