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(TRAVEL.) STEWART, T. MCCANTS.
Liberia: The Americo-African
Republic. Being Some Impressions of the Climate, Resources and People,
Resulting from Personal Observations and Experiences in West Africa.
107
pages. Small 8vo, modern calf-backed boards; fore-edge of the front free endpaper with
archival reinforcement; small water-stain to bottom right corner of the text running
through the volume.
New York: Edward O. Jenkins, 1886
[2,500/3,500]
FIRST EDITION
,
PRESENTATION FROM THE AUTHOR TO CARRIE FORTUNE
,
WIFE OF
THE EMINENT AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER T
.
THOMAS FORTUNE
.
To
Mrs. Carrie Fortune, Yours very truly, T,. McCants Stewar[t]. Feb. 13th, 1886. Thomas
McCants Stewart, lawyer, minister, emigrationist and lecturer was born Charleston, South
Carolina in 1853. His portrait and biographical sketch appear in William Simmons’ encyclo-
pedic biographical dictionary “Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive, Rising” (1887). Stewart
and his family are the subject of a recent book, “African American Oddysey: The Stewarts,
1853-1963” (University Press of Kansas, 1998).
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(UPLIFT.) LINCOLN, ABRAHAM.
Onward!
Lithographic poster, 18 x 14
inches, matted and framed; three large oval vignette portraits of Booker T. Washington,
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; with scenes of before and after Emancipation in
the background.
Np, W. L. Haskell, 1903
[600/800]
Published to commemorate the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.
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