THE HAPPY NEGRO, TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE PRAYING SOLDIER AND THE PROFLIGATE RECLAIMED
by Serle, Ambrose
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About This Item
American Tract Society #7. no date (1825) 12mo wraps. Front cover has 1-1/2 x 2-1/2 inch vignette of two men talking along a road, one presumably the Happy Negro. Text tells how an English Gentleman, walking in New York, met a Negro on the road. "I wished him to tell me whether his state of slavery was not disagreeable to him. 'Massa' said he...'I have a wife and children; my Massa take care of them and I have no care to provide any thing; I have a good Massa who teach me to read". Foxed but legible; not torn; binding secure; no ownership marks; no chips. .
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- Title
- THE HAPPY NEGRO, TO WHICH ARE ADDED THE PRAYING SOLDIER AND THE PROFLIGATE RECLAIMED
- Author
- Serle, Ambrose
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- Keywords
- americana nineteenth slavery
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