Raynors HCA 2015-05
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2015
An authentic and complete issue of the New York Daily Tribune, July 26, 1859, 8pp., disbound, loose at spine,VG. From the interior, a complete letter written by a Fugitive Slave to his former master. Under the heading “From A Fugitive Slave to His Master”. In small part, “Fugitive’s Home, Sandwich, C.W., March 18, 1859 ...I am happy to inform you that I am in Canada, in good health, and that robbing a woman of her husband, and children of their father does not pay, at least in your case ...as you promised you would, which was to let me go with my family for $800 ... let me go with my dear wife and children! but instead would render me miserable, and lie to me ... you was at Louisville trying to sell me! then I thought it was time for me to make my feet feel for Canada ... I am comfortably situated in Canada, working for George Harris, one of the persons that act a part in ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin.’ He was a slave a few years ago in Kentucky, and now owns a farm so level that there is not hills enough on it to hide a dog ... making the professions that you do, pretending to be a follower of Christ, and tormenting me and my little ones as you have done — had better repair the breaches you have made among us in this world, by sending my wife and children to me ... I subscribe myself one of the abused of America, but one of the justified and honored of Canada. Jackson Whitney.”
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