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Autographs for Freedom edited by Julia Griffiths. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1853. First edition. Octavo. (5" x 7.75"). 263 pages. Three engraved plates, including frontispiece. Black cloth boards stamped in blind with gilt-stamped spine. A collection of anti-slavery "testimonies" gathered by the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, including essays, poems, and fiction by such notables as William H. Seward, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horace Mann, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lewis Tappan, Horace Greeley, et al., each contribution accompanied by the author's signature in facsimile. Also included is Frederick Douglass' "The Heroic Slave," Douglass' only work of fiction.The Heroic Slave (first published earlier the same year in his newspaper The North Star) appears on pages 174-239. Published the same year as William Wells Brown's Clotelle, this is the first book printing. Douglass's piece certainly can claim to share the title of "first substantial piece of fiction by an African-American." Blockson, 9204. Not listed in Whiteman's Century of Fiction by American Negroes.
Douglass's only attempt at fiction, The Heroic Slave, was a dramatization of the events surrounding the actual rebellion led by Madison Washington on the slave ship Creole. On November 7, 1841, while on the route from Virginia to New Orleans, the crew was overtaken by a contingent of the slaves being transported who then redirected the ship to the British free port of Nassau. Once there, the British authorities detained nineteen identified leaders of the rebellion. All remaining passengers, crew and enslaved people, were allowed to disembark freely. Five months later, the nineteen enslaved people, including Madison Washington, were set free due to lack of evidence.
Condition: Spine sunned with rubbed boards. Dated gift inscription to front free endpaper. Text block toned and lightly foxed. Internally clean with minor areas of soiling. Gutters overextended.
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2022 October 19 Historic African Americana Signature® Auction #6248 (go to Auction Home page)
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