February 23rd, 2012
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/23/2012
Newspaper, Harper’s Weekly, May 21, 1870, 16pp., filled with wood engraved illustration and news reports, complete and authentic, disbound. From an interior page, biographies and related portrait engravings of William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips and Lucretia Mott. Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United States. Garrison was also a prominent voice for the women's suffrage movement. Phillips was an American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, and orator. He was an exceptional orator and agitator, advocate and lawyer, writer and debater. Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. Additionally, a Winslow Homer engraving “Spring Blossoms
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