The Life and Adventures of John Levy. Edited by his daughter Miss Rachel Frances Levy
by LEVY, John and Miss Rachel Frances Levy, editor
First
Price: $1,500.00
- Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
- Seller Inventory #: 57063
- Edition: First
- Publisher: Printed at the "Journal" Office, Brechin Block
- Place: Lawrence (MA)
- Date published: 1877
Book Description
Lawrence (MA): Printed at the "Journal" Office, Brechin Block. 1877. First. Second edition (the first was published in 1871). Octavo. 80pp. Pale violet wrappers. A bit of erosion to the spine, some very faint lightening or staining to the front wrap, still a handsome and sound, very good plus copy. Levy was a descendant of a slave named Quork who escaped from his owner and was captured, beaten and returned to slavery. These events formed the basis for a landmark court case that was upheld in Quork's favor in 1783, and which effectively ended slavery in Massachusetts. John Levy, originally from Boston, was a hairdresser and paid agent of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, who moved to Lowell in 1830. In 1843 he worked with Maria Chapman and Sarah Clay to found the Lowell Woman's Anti-Slavery Society. In 1844 he was instrumental, along with Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison, in promoting a series of 100 anti-slavery conventions in Massachusetts. Very scarce, OCLC lists five copies of this edition, and six of the 1871 edition. .
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