[Rarebooks] FS: THE CHILD'S ANTI-SLAVERY BOOK, 1859

[Charles Agvent]

(COLMAN, Julia and THOMPSON, Matilda G.). THE CHILD'S ANTI-SLAVERY BOOK 
Containing a Few Words about American Slave Children and Stories of 
Slave-Life. New York/Cincinnati: Phillips & Hunt/Walden & Stowe, [1859]. 
First Edition. Original brown cloth (4" x 5-3/4"); 158, [2] pages. With 
9 (of 10) illustrations. This children's storybook contains 5 sections. 
The first is about the institution of slavery, explaining to children 
what slavery means. The other 4 sections are stories about particular 
people. Seven years after Jewett brought out the Illustrated Edition of 
Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, 9 of Hammatt Billings' 
drawings from that edition were used in a short, simply-written 
collection of abolitionist children's stories. No author's or editor's 
name appears on the title page. Billings is not given any credit, nor is 
any mention made of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. In the introduction by “D.W,” 
readers are told that the “stories are pictures of actual life, and 
worthy of your belief.” The tales are: “Little Lewis: The Story of a 
Slave Boy,” by Julia Colman; “Mark and Hasty; or, Slave-Life in 
Missouri,” by Matilda G. Thompson; and “Aunt Judy's Story: A Story from 
Real Life,” also by Matilda G. Thompson. There is also a brief epilogue, 
“Me Neber Give It Up,” which contains the only picture (not present) not 
taken from Stowe's novel. On the front pastedown in ink is written "S. 
S. Library/No. 55 [crossed out]: 14." Quite shaken with a number of 
pages loose or detached; lacking one illustration, as noted; occasional 
stain. Covers worn and stained, gilt worn but readable on spine. Fair to 
Good only, but rather scarce. (#021577)        $750

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