Rare Antebellum Abolitionist Critique

ADAMS, Francis Colburn.

[African Americana - Slavery/Abolition] OUR WORLD: or, THE SLAVEHOLDER'S DAUGHTER.

New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1855. First edition. Octavo. Original publisher's plum colored ribbed cloth, blind-stamped borders and center diamond shape. [8], 597, [4] pp. Frontispiece with tissue guard intact. Nine plates, printed on recto only, one vignette in text. Four pages of advertisements follow the text, including a full-page ad for Solomon Northrup's Twelve Years A Slave. Boards exhibit uniform wear, moderate foxing, particularly near the plates, spots on upper board, light damp-stain on lower board with a few of the concluding pages exhibiting tide-marks (probably dry for more than 150 years); penciled name on a preliminary endpaper, else a very good copy of a scarce abolitionist novel. 

First edition. A post-Uncle Tom’s Cabin anti-slavery narrative set in Charleston, South Carolina, exposing the moral and social evils of slavery through the downfall of planter Hugh Marston. Adams, a Southern-born writer, published this anonymously, and it remains one of the lesser-known abolitionist novels of the 1850s. The novel’s commercial obscurity and bibliographic absence from Wright American Fiction underscore its rarity. Very good. Item #831

Price: $800.00