[Rarebooks] FS - Female Slave "Autobiography"

[GREENFIELD BOOKS]

ANONYMOUS [Martha Griffith Browne], /AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FEMALE SLAVE/, 
copyright 1856 by J. S. Redfield, with date of 1857 on title page under 
name of Redfield, as publisher, at 34 Beekman Street, New York. First 
edition. Small 8vo, pp. viii,  9-401, 8 [ads]. Bound in original blind 
ruled brown cloth, with title and publisher's name stamped in gilt on 
spine. Boards heavily worn and bumped, with noticeable soiling. Head and 
tail of spine pulled for one quarter inch. Endpapers are dark brown 
paper, with front free endpaper removed. Rear hinge cracked, binding a 
bit sprung. Contents complete, with some soiling and foxing to text 
(mainly to margins). Requires modest cosmestic restoration: still a 
fairly good copy of this very scarce Abolitionist title.

Martha Griffith Browne, the author of /Autobiography of a Female Slave/, 
was a white woman from Kentucky who, prior to her conversion to 
abolitionism, had been a slaveowner. Browne wrote sketches and poems for 
/The National Anti-Slavery Standard/ before authoring the novel, 
/Autobiography of a Female Slave/ in 1856. /Autobiography of a Female 
Slave/ is one of several noteworthy antebellum novels about slavery that 
were written by abolitionist authors. In some cases these novels echoed 
the storytelling style and conventions of the slave narrative so 
convincingly that they were mistaken for actual autobiographies of 
former slaves. The effectiveness of these novels in representing slavery 
and the point of view of slaves often made them useful weapons in the 
antislavery struggle. (/Documenting the American South/North American 
Slave Narratives, /Univ. of North Caroline - Chapel Hill).

This title has been reprinted a number of times: in 1969 by the Negro 
Universities Press, in 1998 by Banner Books, and in 2001 by Roundhouse 
Publishing. The 1998 reprint contains an afterward by Joe Lockard which 
sets out more detailed information about Browne.

Photos of the title page and copyright page are available at: 
http://www.greenfieldbooks.com/FemaleSlave.htm

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