first edition Softcover
1878 · Cincinnati
Cincinnati: Western Methodist Book Concern Print, 1878. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 64pp. Printed gray wrappers. Inscription on front wrap: "Regards of R. S. Rust" (Corresponding Secretary of the Society, and the former president of Wilberforce University), some foxing and small smudges and wear on wrappers, pages partially unopened, very good or better. Reports (including "Colored Teachers" and "Freedwomen"), as well as two essays "The Americo-African" and "The American Problem". The Freemen's Aid Society was made up of both white and black church members, founded to establish schools and colleges for freedmen in the South. (Inventory (truncated)