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Boston: Crosby, Nichols, and Co, 1854. 124 pp. First edition. Head of the spine lacking, and the front board has remnants of a label adhered to it. The First few leaves are foxed. Haitian born slave Toussaint wnt on to be a well-known hairdresser in New York city and a leading member of the Catholic Church.
Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo by LEE, H(anna) - 1854
by LEE, H(anna)
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Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo
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Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. Third edition. Octavo. 124pp. Dark brown boards gilt on the spine. Frontispiece portrait. Foxing on frontispiece, cloth on spine ends worn, but a tight and attractive about very good copy of this memoir of a former slave who rose through his own industry to eventually become hairdresser to the most fashionable ladies in New York, and a pillar of both the black community and the Catholic Church.
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- Publisher Crosby, Nichols and Company
- Place of Publication Boston
- Date Published 1854
- Keywords African-Americana, Biography
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Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo
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Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in St. Domingo
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Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Company, 1854. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 124pp. Green cloth boards gilt on the spine. Frontispiece portrait with Toussaint's inscription in facsimile. Lacks rear fly, foxing on frontispiece, cloth on spine ends worn with some shallow loss, but a tight and attractive very good copy of this memoir of a former slave who rose through his own industry to eventually become hairdresser to the most fashionable ladies in New York, and a pillar of both the black community and the Catholic Church.
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