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(FRATERNAL.) DICKSON, MOSES.
A Manual of the Knights of Tabor
and the Daughters of the Tabernacle.
Portrait frontispiece and several other illustra-
tions. 8vo, original green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind; extremities rubbed; some
scribbling on the rear endpapers.
St Louis, MO: The author, 1872
[800/1,200]
THE RARE FIRST EDITION
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ONLY ONE OTHER COPY IS LOCATED
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Moses Dickson (1824-1901)
was born free in Cincinnati. After a trip through the South in 1833 he dedicated the rest of his life to
ending slavery. To that end, he and a group of eleven other men founded the Order of Twelve in
1846, which was eventually absorbed by the Prince Hall lodge.
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