[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. [UPHAM, Mrs. T.C.]. Happy Phebe. Dublin and London: ca 1860-1861.
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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[ENSLAVEMENT & ABOLITION]. [UPHAM, Mrs. T.C.]. Happy Phebe. Dublin and London: ca 1860-1861.
48mo (2 3/4 x 4 1/8 in.), 23pp. Original wrappers with a woodcut illustration of an enslaved woman on the front cover (wrappers with partial separation at central fold, interior pages detached from wrappers, edge and corner wear, occasional spotting).
Later printing of a popular anti-slavery narrative regarding the life of Phebe Ann Jacobs, or "Happy Phebe," which originally appeared in a small tract published by J.S. Stewart around 1850. The first edition of Happy Phebe is considered to be one of Harriet Beecher Stowe's primary feminine sources for "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
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