Life, including his Escape and Struggle for Liberty

Лот 347
19.10.2023 10:00UTC -05:00
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Лот 347 | Life, including his Escape and Struggle for Liberty
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Charles A GARLICK (1827-1912). Life, including his Escape and Struggle for Liberty of Charles A. Garlick. Born a Slave in Old Virginia. Who Secured his Freedom by Running Away from his Master's Farm in 1843. [Jefferson, Ohio: for the author, printed by J.A. Howells & Co.,] 1902.

First edition of this rare, self-published narrative of the Underground Railroad. Garlick (his adopted name in freedom) left Virginia when he was sixteen and arrived in the abolitionist hotbed of northeastern Ohio. There his formal schooling began, including at Oberlin College. He later served in the 3rd U.S. Heavy Artillery in the Civil War, returning from Canada to do so. There are no copies in the auction records of RBH.

Octavo (167 x 120mm). Frontispiece photolithographed portrait; vignette illustration of the Ashtabula County Court House (upper blank corner missing from second half of pages). Previously stapled into wrappers (staples lacking, fragment only of upper wrapper). Provenance: A Midwestern estate.
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