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[HILDRETH, RICHARD]. The Slave: or Memoirs of Archy Moore. Third Edition. Two Volumes in One. Boston: Mass. Anti-Slavery Society, 1840. 8vo. 123; 115 pp. Orig. cloth backed boards, printed paper label. Rubbed. Lacks front endpaper. With an 1851 presentation inscription, "from an English friend.". $375.00

 

LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue does not record this edition. Wright I, 1189. R & B 40-3148.  Volume two has its own title page. The first great American anti-slavery novel, virtually impossible to obtain in the first edition of 1836.