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Whittier : Bard of Freedom. [The Quaker Inheritance; New England Anti-Slavery Riots; Emotional Onslaught on Slavery; A Recently Discovered 'Round Robin']
by Bennett, Whitman. [association copy: Bert Buckley]
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; New York : Van Rees Press, 1941., 1941. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). xv, 359 p. illus. 24 cm. ; Green cloth with gold lettering in pictorial dustjacket ; SIGNED presentation copy from the author and bookman Whitman Bennett to Bert Buckley, most probably Bert B. Buckley, Ohio State Treasurer from 1927-29 and delegate from Dayton, Ohio to the 19 16 Republican National Convention in Chicago, remembered for having broken the color barrier in Ohio in 1918 while acting as State Fire Marshal by hiring blacks to the state Fire Marshal's office ; facsimile of Whittier letter tipped in ; fold-out reproduction of the abolitionist broadside with Whittier's poem, "Our countrymen in chains" (has a small tear) ; ep gutters foxed ; small nicks to dustjacket ; a little dusty, else VG/G.
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- Joseph Valles - Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2268
- Title
- Whittier : Bard of Freedom. [The Quaker Inheritance; New England Anti-Slavery Riots; Emotional Onslaught on Slavery; A Recently Discovered 'Round Robin']
- Author
- Bennett, Whitman. [association copy: Bert Buckley]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press ; New York : Van Rees Press, 1941.
- Date Published
- 1941
- Keywords
- john greenleaf whittier poets poems anti-slavery slavery abolitionists abolition bert buckley b dayton ohio republican ohio state blacks slaves african american quaker quakers massachusetts civil war adams currier clay garrison
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- Catalog 67 - Black History;
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