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Narrative of Sojourner Truth...Drawn from her 'Book of Life'" - Expanded edition of her autobiography, with abolitionist provenance
by Truth, Sojourner. (circa 1797-1883)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Boston: Published for the Author, 1875. First Edition thus. Used; Like New/Used; Like New. 2 parts in 1 vol., 8vo (190 x 120 mm). Half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait; offsetting to frontis., scattered thumbsoiling and toning, newspaper clipping of her obituary laid down on rear endpapers with accompanying browning and old adhesive; modern reproduction carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth laid down on front paste-down. Publisher's black cloth with gilt portrait of Truth to upper cover; heavily restored and worn, retaining most of the original covers, and part of the spine.
The present work, a revised and expanded biography of the noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth, belonged to George Gage, a prominent citizen in Reconstruction-era Beaufort, South Carolina. Gage was a civil engineer born in McConnelsville, Ohio who moved to Beaufort to work as a surveyor. While working on the railroad construction project from Augusta to Beaufort, he developed an interest in vocational training for the formerly enslaved. His wife, Sarah Marshall Ely, was an abolitionist and social activist who taught in the newly established segregated Freedmen's Bureau schools (Duke University Libraries).The gift inscription on the front paste-down, seemingly also in Gage's hand, states: "Geo. Gage, from Uncle John and Aunt Portia. January 1876." Uncle John and Aunt Portia's identities are unknown, although intriguingly, the use of the titles "Uncle" and "Aunt" indicates the book may have been a gift from members of the African American community that the Gages worked with.
The present work, a revised and expanded biography of the noted abolitionist Sojourner Truth, belonged to George Gage, a prominent citizen in Reconstruction-era Beaufort, South Carolina. Gage was a civil engineer born in McConnelsville, Ohio who moved to Beaufort to work as a surveyor. While working on the railroad construction project from Augusta to Beaufort, he developed an interest in vocational training for the formerly enslaved. His wife, Sarah Marshall Ely, was an abolitionist and social activist who taught in the newly established segregated Freedmen's Bureau schools (Duke University Libraries).The gift inscription on the front paste-down, seemingly also in Gage's hand, states: "Geo. Gage, from Uncle John and Aunt Portia. January 1876." Uncle John and Aunt Portia's identities are unknown, although intriguingly, the use of the titles "Uncle" and "Aunt" indicates the book may have been a gift from members of the African American community that the Gages worked with.
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- Bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Narrative of Sojourner Truth...Drawn from her 'Book of Life'" - Expanded edition of her autobiography, with abolitionist provenance
- Author
- Truth, Sojourner. (circa 1797-1883)
- Book Condition
- New Used; Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Used; Like New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition thus
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Published for the Author
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1875
- Keywords
- Book :: History & Historiography :: Civil War
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