Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself Small 8vo; publisher's blind-stamped cloth, 2 nicks at spine extremities; early bookseller's description affixed to rear endpaper. Contemporary ownership signature of "Mary Urwin,

Narrative of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. Written by Himself Small 8vo; publisher's blind-stamped cloth, 2 nicks at spine extremities; early bookseller's description affixed to rear endpaper. Contemporary ownership signature of "Mary Urwin, Monk House.' Wortley Near Leeds: Joseph Barker, 1846 E400-600 First Leeds edition, containing a thirty page speech titled "American Slavery,' given at Finsbury Chapel, Moorfields, Friday, May 22, 1846, and printed here for the first time. In England many of the abolitionists, worried that Douglass was not pure Negro, prompted Douglass to comment "I am hardly black enough for the British taste, but by keeping my hair wooly as possible-I make out to pass for at least half a Negro." A Dublin admirer said'. if half a Naigar can make a speech like that, what can a whole Naigar do?' McFeely, pages 131-1321 Blockson 9737: