HISTORY OF THE OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE
by Shipherd, Jacob R
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good; Green boards with black speckled cloth bound to give the impression of three-quarter leather. Wear to the green boards an
- Seller
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Trumbull, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
Boston: John P. Jewett and Co. Good; Green boards with black speckled cloth bound to give the impression . of three-quarter leather. Wear to the green boards and a touch of wear to . the gilt lettering on the spine. Some water spotting to pages with no . damage to text. Bookplate on front pastedown: Charles Slocum of Defiance, . Ohio.. 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. A transcript of a court case testing the Fugitive Slave Act, involving a slave that had escaped from Kentucky to Oberlin, Ohio, and the attempts by the slaveholder to recapture said slave. Fascinating look into pre-Civil War history. .
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- Bookseller
- Blackbird Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1792
- Title
- HISTORY OF THE OBERLIN-WELLINGTON RESCUE
- Author
- Shipherd, Jacob R
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good; Green boards with black speckled cloth bound to give the impression of three-quarter leather. Wear to the green boards an
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John P. Jewett and Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1859
- Keywords
- FUGITIVE, SLAVE, ACT, SLAVERY, HISTORY
- Bookseller catalogs
- World History; Non-Mystery / Collectible Non-Fiction;
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Blackbird Bookshop
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Trumbull, Connecticut
About Blackbird Bookshop
Blackbird Bookshop is an internet-only bookstore specializing in Mystery and Suspense, and Modern First Editions. We have high standards for any book in our stock, regardless of the age of the book. If we wouldn't be proud to display it in our personal collection, we won't sell it.
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