The Future of Africa: Being Addresses, Sermons, Etc., Etc., Delivered in the Republic of Liberia

New York: Charles Scribners, 1862. First Edition. Very Good. First edition, first printing of Alexander Crummell's scarce collection of sermons and addresses delivered in Liberia. American poet, Quaker and advocate for abolition John Greenleaf Whittier's copy, with his ownership inscription to the front free endpaper. Printed slip "With regards from Benjamin Coates" laid in; Coates was one of the best-known white supporters of African colonization in nineteenth-century America. A Quaker businessman from Philadelphia and a sometime officer of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, he was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. Bound in publisher's dark brown pebbled cloth decorated in blind with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with loss to cloth at corners joints and spine ends heaviest at crown. A fantastic association copy among prominent nineteenth-century Quaker abolitionists. (Inventory #: 140947020)