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Lot Description

[SLAVERY & ABOLITION]. KEMBLE, Frances Anne (1809-1893).

The Views of Judge Woodward and Bishop Hopkins on Negro Slavery at the South, Illustrated from the Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation. [Philadelphia?]: Privately printed, [1863?].

8vo. Woodcut illustrations on front wrapper and title page. (Soft vertical crease.) Publisher's original illustrated yellow wrappers (light soiling, pencil notations).

FIRST EDITION of the abolitionist response to the pro-slavery speeches by Judge George W. Woodward (1809-1875) and Episcopalian Bishop John Henry Hopkins (1792-1868). The cover and title page are illustrated by a woodcut after the famous photograph taken by McPherson and Oliver in Baton Rouge, LA of a "Badly-whipped slave" showing the back and profile of a young enslaved African American man with a heavily scarred back from the brutality of being bull-whipped. Sabin lists the city of publication as Philadelphia in 1863, others list 1864, and others attest that it was a publication by Harper & Brother's in New York, suggested by the publisher's advertisement for Kemble's Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation on the rear wrapper. Blockson 10196, Sabin 37330.

Collection of Tom Charles Huston

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