Raynors HCA 2014-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 11/6/2014
An authentic issue of the The Liberator, Boston, March 15, 1861, 4pp, disbound, slightly tanned, lightly foxed, VG. From the front page, “The Designs of Redpath, John Brown, Jr., Fred. Douglass, etc.” which suggests “A Negro Army to be Formed.” In part, “There are many facts which go to show that a daring scheme is on foot among the free negro population of the Northern States & the Canadas; that, under the direction of such turbulent agitators as Redpath, Fred. Douglass, and young John Brown, on whose shoulders has fallen most fully the mantle of his father's blood-thirsty fanaticism, they are proposing to take advantage of the first outbreak of war to consummate a raid upon the South, in which all the horrors contemplated by John Brown, Sr., will find their full realization.....”
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