Raynor HCA 2014-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/30/2014
A complete issue of The Illustrated London News, April 6, 1861, 24 pp., disbound, VG. From the interior, an important report “Release of Anderson, the Fugitive Slave” runs 2 columns with a 1/4 page engraving of the fugitive, John Anderson. In part, “John Anderson, a negro slave, but with apparently a mixture of white blood in his veins, was brought up in the State of Missouri, and married a slave girl, by whom he had one child. Sharing the lot of his master's other live stock, he was sold into a part of the country many miles away from his wife. In the year 1853 he fled from the plantation to which he was transferred, and appeared in the quarter where his wife was located. Here he was descried by a planter named Seneca Digges, who had no claim over him, but who, in the common interest of slaveholding, gave chase with four slaves, whom he placed on the track of the fugitive. They ran down Anderson, as though he had been a mad dog, and Digges at last closed with him. Anderson, thus brought to bay, stabbed Digges mortally. He then made his way to Canada, where he has ever since lived the life of a quiet, industrious citizen. The wife and child of Anderson are still in bondage in Missouri, and he is most anxious to purchase their freedom. ..” Additionally, an attractive front cover with 1/2 page illustration “A Barber’s Shop at Richmond,” shows a black barber.
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