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SANBORN, FRANKLIN B. Emancipation in the West Indies. Concord, Massachusetts: 1862 (March). 1st ed. 8vo. 15 pp. Sewn, as issued; some soiling & wrinkling. $175.00
LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, 9085. Sabin 76248. The second work by the biographer of Alcott, Brown, Thoreau, Howe and others. Sanborn opened a school in Concord in 1855, and was arrested in 1860 for refusing to testify before a Senate committee investigating John Brown's raid at Harpers Ferry. Sanborn was Brown's New England agent, and one of a few New England abolitionists to actively support Brown's invasion of the federal arsenal.