Massachusetts Abolitionist, Volume I, Numbers 1-52
by WRIGHT, Elizur, Jr., edited by
First
Price: $6,500.00
- Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 291962
- Edition: First
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: George Russell
- Place: Boston
- Date published: 1839-40
Book Description
Boston: George Russell. 1839-40. First. Folio. Very good, bound in worn three quarter leather and marbled boards with some dampstaining and light foxing to leaves, but all pages quite sound and legible. The first fifty-two issues of the Massachusetts Abolitionist. The first dated February 7, 1839 and the last February 13, 1840. The Massachusetts Abolitionist was published from 1839-1841 as the voice of the Massachusetts Abolitionist Society, whose members had split off from the American Anti-Slavery Society due to differences with the policies of William Lloyd Garrison. Its first editor was Elizur Wright Jr., later celebrated as the "father of life insurance" due to his early work with actuarial tables. With the ownership signature of noted abolitionist minister Alanson St. Clair. .
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