BROWN, WILLIAM WELLS

The Black Man, His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements. 12mo, publisher's cloth, tips worn, backstrip perished; internally fine. New York, 1863 FIRST EDITION. A collection of biographical sketches of virtually all of the great African-Americans from Benjamin Banneker to Phillis Wheatley, by the author of Clotel, the first novel by an African-American. From the library of Civil Rights activist Bayard Rustin. Blockson Collection 2369; Sabin 8589.