(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Liberty Chimes.
(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Liberty Chimes. [5]-148 pages as issued. 12mo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; lacking a bit of front free endpaper and all of rear free endpaper; early bookseller's tag on front pastedown. Providence: Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 1845 Includes an essay on "Reform" by Wendell Phillips, the poem "The Contrast" by James Russell Lowell, the long story "The Slave-Wife" by Frances Harriet Green (Eleanor Eldredge's ghostwriter); the poems "Lines Written in November" and "The Golden Ball" by Sarah Helen Whitman (Poe's fiancé); a long letter on slavery in Texas by Ahmed el Korah; and more. Several of the works are by Rhode Islanders. Blockson 9636; Livingston, Lowell page 20.
WITH--Isaac Bickerstaff [Daniel Sewall]. "The Rhode Island Almanack for the Year 1835." 28, 12 pages. 12mo, stitched; moderate wear and staining. Includes as an appendix a long "defence of abolition principles" issued by the Providence anti-Slavery Society, followed by the "Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention." Drake, Almanacs 13042. Providence, [1834].
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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Liberty Chimes. [5]-148 pages as issued. 12mo, publisher's cloth, moderate wear; lacking a bit of front free endpaper and all of rear free endpaper; early bookseller's tag on front pastedown. Providence: Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society, 1845 Includes an essay on "Reform" by Wendell Phillips, the poem "The Contrast" by James Russell Lowell, the long story "The Slave-Wife" by Frances Harriet Green (Eleanor Eldredge's ghostwriter); the poems "Lines Written in November" and "The Golden Ball" by Sarah Helen Whitman (Poe's fiancé); a long letter on slavery in Texas by Ahmed el Korah; and more. Several of the works are by Rhode Islanders. Blockson 9636; Livingston, Lowell page 20.
WITH--Isaac Bickerstaff [Daniel Sewall]. "The Rhode Island Almanack for the Year 1835." 28, 12 pages. 12mo, stitched; moderate wear and staining. Includes as an appendix a long "defence of abolition principles" issued by the Providence anti-Slavery Society, followed by the "Declaration of the National Anti-Slavery Convention." Drake, Almanacs 13042. Providence, [1834].
