Inscribed by the Author

CRUMMELL, ALEX. The Relations and Duties of Free Colored Men in America to Africa. A Letter to Charles B. Dunbar. Hartford, [Conn.]: 1861. 1st ed. 8vo. 54 pp. Orig. printed wrappers. Frayed & detached. $750.00

LCP/HSP Afro-Americana Catalogue, 2847. "...Crummell spent twenty years teaching theology and serving his flock in an Episcopal parish in Liberia. After his return to America in 1873...he became a spokesman for a renewed self-confidence by his race..." --LCP Negro History Catalogue. Inscribed in ink on the front wrapper by Alex Crummell to famed Boston anti-slavery Unitarian minister James Freeman Clarke.