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[HILDRETH, RICHARD.]. The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive. Boston: Tappan and Whittemore. Milwaukie, Wis.: Rood and Whittemore, 1852. First complete edition. 8vo. 408 pp. Illus. Orig. cloth, very faded; some foxing. $250.00

 

Wright II, 1198, noting one copy with this imprint. First published in 1836 as The Slave; or, Memoirs of Archy Moore. . . in two volumes. An extraordinarily influential book, only overshadowed with the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin. With the signature of John Fletcher [the 1852 Louisiana author of Studies in Slavery?].