Raynors 2012-09
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 9/27/2012
A complete and authentic issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated, December 25, 1869, 16pp., disbound, VG. From the interior a large 1/4 page engraving, “Sojourner Truth, The Eloquent Negress,” with an acommpaning story on the following page. The 5” story “Sojourner Truth,” in part, “Sojourner Truth was born a slave in the family of Colonel Hardenburgh, near Swatakill, in Ulster County, New York, and sold away from her family when about ten years old. She remained in Ulster County forty years, a slave, and had, during that time, numerous owners. She obtained her freedom under the Act of Emancipation in the State of New York. After her freedom she lived in the city of New York a number of years, and in Massachusetts, at Northampton, about twenty years. During all this time she traveled through every section of the country, laboring to promote the welfare of her race. ...”
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