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Lot 260
Sale 503 - Fine Books and Manuscripts
Sep 13, 2017
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HUGHES, Louis (1832-1913)
Thirty Years a Slave. From Bondage to Freedom. Milwaukee: South Side Printing Company, 1897.8vo. Portrait frontispiece of Louis Hughes, numerous illustrations. (A few old tape repairs, otherwise fine.) Publisher's maroon cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION. Though Hughes published his memoir after slavery had been abolished, he presented "his story in compliance with the suggestion of friends, and in the hope that it may add something of accurate information regarding the character and influence of an institution which for two hundred years dominated the country" (introduction).
