Swann Galleries - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, Sale 2342, March 27, 2014 - page 16

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.)
[WARD, REV. EDWARD].
Sambo and
Toney, A Dialogue between two
Africans in S. Carolina. To which is
added Biographical Sketches of Two
West India Black Men, etc.
107, [1]
pages. 12mo, original calf-backed wood
shingle boards with the title in gilt on the
spine; edges worn, text evenly toned with
some early staining; early and unusual
bookplate on rear paste-down.
Baltimore: John Kingston, 1811
[400/600]
THIRD EDITION
,
SCARCE
.
A very unusual
anti-abolitionist argument, this imagined con-
versation in dialect by two African slaves in
South Carolina, at times verges on the hilari-
ous. Preceded by an 1808 Georgetown S.C.,
edition and an 1810 Baltimore edition. (Sabin
75900 supra).
ONE COPY LOCATED BY
OCLC
.
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